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Microsoft Revives Its Hardware Conference

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-by-popular-demand dept.

jfruh writes Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC, was an annual staple of the '90s and '00s: every year, execs from Redmond would tell OEMs what to expect when it came to Windows servers and PCs. The conference was wrapped with software into Build in 2009, but now it's being revived to deal with not just computers but also the tablets and cell phone Microsoft has found itself in the business of selling and even making. It's also being moved from the U.S. to China, as an acknowledgment of where the heart of the tech hardware business is now.

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  1. Frosty pasta! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What the HEC is this?

    1. Re:Frosty pasta! by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 3, Funny

      Microsoft had tablets and smart phones years before Apple.

      Are you certain that Microsoft has smart phones? I'm pretty sure I'd have seen one being used by someone by now if this were true.

  2. Let me guess - they bought out Tag Hauer? by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 1, Funny

    Coming soon - the Microsoft Watch.

    It has a paperclip for it's face, and asks you really stupid questions ...

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    1. Re:Let me guess - they bought out Tag Hauer? by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1, Funny

      /Oblg. The Microsoft Watch (TM) will Blue Screen every day. At least a broken clock will be right twice a day. :-)