Windows Hardware Engineering Conference
The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference ( WinHEC ) is an annual trade fair and business conference at which Microsoft carries out its hardware plans for the Windows platform. Typically, speeches by people like Bill Gates as well as sponsors such as B. Intel , HP or Samsung to the events.
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At the WinHEC, Microsoft will present current and future developments and changes for the Windows operating system to the participants on several days in various lectures with changing speakers in order to jointly advance the provision of new hardware standards and devices and to enable their compatibility with Windows.
As an in- house exhibition , WinHEC can also be viewed as part of Microsoft's marketing strategy for the Windows platform. The sponsors and other exhibitors are given the opportunity to advertise their company and their products through their presence.
According to Microsoft, the target group of WinHEC includes representatives of hardware manufacturers for Windows computers who have to adapt their devices to the Windows architecture, developers and testers of driver software who are interested in Windows interfaces and developer tools for driver programming, as well as managers who have technical developments and corporate strategy are informed.
Previous events
| date | place | subjects | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 25-27 April | New Orleans , Louisiana | USB 2.0, Windows CE 3, Pocket PC, Windows 2000 and SQL Server 64-bit |
| 2001 | 26.-28. March | Anaheim , California | Windows XP Beta 2 and Internet Explorer 6 Beta, Tablet PC |
| 2002 | 16.-18. April | Seattle , Washington | "Athens" concept, smart devices, WLAN, IPv6, |
| 2003 | 6-8 May | New Orleans, Louisiana | First Longhorn demonstration, Media Center Edition 2004, NGSCB, DRM |
| 2004 | 4th-7th May | Seattle, Washington | Longhorn Planning, SP for Windows XP and Server 2003, Tablet PC and Media Center Edition 2005, Windows CE 5 |
| 2005 | 25-27 April | Seattle, Washington | Longhorn (which later became Vista; Aero, Glass, WinFS, Desktopsuche), Windows XP x64 |
| 2006 | 23-25 May | Seattle, Washington | Windows Vista Beta 2, Office 2007 Beta, Longhorn Server Beta, Hypervisor, NDIS 6.0 |
| 2007 | 15-17 May | Los Angeles , California | Windows Server 2008, Windows Home Server |
| 2008 | 4th-7th November | Los Angeles, California | Windows 7, solid state disks and flash memory |
See also
- Professional Developers Conference
- Macworld Expo