I’m looking forward to attending Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference 2008, starting Oct 27. It’ll be my first PDC, actually.

One interesting observation: the agenda shows that Cloud Services has the largest number of sessions (39) by topic. Even more than Windows 7 (22), although that’s the runner-up!

What does that say about what Microsoft thinks is the future of computing, its areas of future revenue growth, and its future investments in technology innovation?

Obviously, cloud computing has got major buzz. And it is a compelling computing model. But don’t forget that the interesting problems are always in integration. Developers will be asking about cloud computing at PDC, and how to take advantage of that new technology, but what they really need to know is how to integrate with what they’ve already got. Namely, a bunch of Windows clients and some servers!

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