January 19, 1996
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Microsoft Tech*Ed 96, the principal annual technical conference on developing BackOffice-, Office- and Windows-based solutions, will be held April 15-19 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
Over 150 sessions--including information on business solutions for the Internet--will be offered during the five-day gathering of corporate developers, technology planners, system architects/integrators, and business-technology decision-makers.
Chairman Bill Gates and other Microsoft executives will outline the company's future directions in technology and offer their views on business issues affecting the technology.
All information at this year's Tech*Ed will be delivered at either an advanced or expert level. Among the focuses of the various tracks will be the Internet, networking, enterprise computing, messaging, OLE/COM, Office development/VBA, and data management
The cost will be US$1,195 for those registering by March 1. (US$1,395 thereafter.)
For complete information or to register:
Q. Which of the two major developer conferences sponsored by Microsoft should a developer attend? Tech*Ed 96 in Los Angeles or the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in San Francisco on March 12-14?
A. The Professional Developers Conference is primarily for independent developers who build Win32, OLE and Internet applications that eventually get packaged and sold at retail. Tech*Ed is primarily for developers who purchase that packaged software and use it with Microsoft tools to develop corporate applications.
