Microsoft has cancelled its developer conference in October, citing inconvenient timing for the show in light of the launch of important new infrastructure and developer-platform products.
Microsoft dropped the bombshell about the Professional Developers Conference (PDC), which was to be held in Los Angeles, in a posting on its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site late Thursday.
FuRuy has opened a Twitter account called “Project Alice” teasing a new game announcement on April 25 at 20:30 JST.
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
Hardly worth reporting here, considering anyone it may affect, should already have the "memo".
This one paragraph sums up why this is not really "news":
"Microsoft's reasoning for this, essentially, is that between MIX, TechEd Orlando and Barcelona, and (I suspect) its Business Intelligence Conference held two weeks ago -- and a slew of recent and soon-to-come alpha and beta releases -- developers have enough to chew on for a while," Andrew Brust, chief, new technology for consulting firm Twentysix New York, said in a post on his blog. "If my memory serves me correctly, Microsoft made the same decision two PDCs back and, with hindsight, people appreciated the decision and judged it wise."
This is hardly gaming related.
business intelligence conference = whose software will we steal next?