Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Next week All

How many times within the past yr have I asked about a item,Microsoft Office Pro 2010, a company or a technique to become told by Microsoft officials: “Just wait till the PDC. We;ll explain all”?Finally, that promised “tell-all” date is here. Microsoft;s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) kicks off next week.As I;ve been posting over the previous few months, the PDC is where Microsoft is expected to offer sneak peeks and updates on a variety of its platform technologies. (Check out my aggregated pre-PDC coverage to date.)Attendees will get a demo of Windows 7 by Windows engineering chief Steven Sinofsky, as well as pre-beta M3 bits to take home. Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is on tap to outline Microsoft;s Live Framework,Microsoft Office Professional 2010, the Live Mesh development platform. Windows Server head Bob Muglia is expected to unveil Microsoft;s cloud development platform and explain how Microsoft plans to try to one-up Amazon and Google in this space — via a combination of its Windows Cloud OS, virtualization and a variety of cloud-optimized services. There are sessions on Microsoft;s Oslo modeling strategy and platform,Office 2007, Silverlight 2 for mobile, parallel/concurrent computing and more.To get a jump on things,Office 2007 Download, you can check out Microbite, a new podcast series I;m doing with The Register;s Gavin Clarke. Episode 1 of Microbite, our PDC Preview, is available for your listening pleasure.Meanwhile, starting on Monday, I;ll be part of a live-blogging crew with plenty of other Microsoft watchers, including my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, LiveSide;s Kip Kniskern, Inside of Windows; Rafael Rivera, Windows Supersite;s Paul Thurrott, Neowin;s Tom Warren and Istartedsomething;s Long Zheng. We;ll be doing a combined live group blog of all of the PDC keynotes. Come back to my site on Monday October 27 at 8:30 a.m. PT to check out the live blog of Microsoft;s cloud launch – a keynote by Softies Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, Bob Muglia and David Thompson.