Windows Hardware Engineering Conference

The Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) is a series of technical conferences and workshops, where Microsoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Windows devices.

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The WinHEC from 1992 to 2008, which stood for Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, was an annual software and hardware developer-oriented trade show and business conference, where Microsoft elaborated on its hardware plans for Microsoft Windows-compatible PCs. From 2008 to 2015, WinHEC was then replaced in Microsoft's schedule by the Professional Developers Conference, later merged into the Build conference.

On September 26, 2014, Microsoft announced that WinHEC would be returning in 2015 in the form of multiple conferences held throughout the year.[1] The first conference was to be held in Shenzhen, China on March 18 to 19. The industry had changed significantly since Microsoft's prior WinHEC event, with innovation happening at a much quicker pace and across more geographically diverse locations. Because of that, Microsoft evolved WinHEC to be more than a single annual conference. WinHEC was to consist of technical conferences and smaller, more frequent, topic focused workshops that were local to the hardware ecosystem hubs. The WinHEC acronym also changed its meaning to "Windows Hardware Engineering Community".

On December 17, 2014, Microsoft announced that registration was open for the first of its re-launched WinHEC summit, taking place March 18–19, 2015 in Shenzhen, China. The company also announced that Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President of the Operating Systems Group would keynote the event. They would discuss advancements in the Windows platform making it easier for companies to build devices powered by Windows as well as Microsoft’s growing investments in the Shenzhen and China ecosystem.

Audience

WinHEC will stay true to its strong technical roots. The agenda will be packed with executive keynotes, deep technical training sessions, hands-on labs, and opportunities for Q&A on topics across the spectrum of Windows-based hardware. For executives, engineering managers, engineers and technical product managers at OEMs, ODMs, IHVs, and IDHs who are working with or want to work with Windows technologies

Events
  • 1992 – San Francisco, California. March 1–3, 1992
  • 1993 – San Jose, California. March 1–3, 1993
  • 1994 – San Francisco, California. February 23–25, 1994
  • 1995 – San Francisco, California. March 20–22, 1995
  • 1996 – San Jose, California. April 1–3, 1996
  • 1997 – San Francisco, California. April 8–10, 1997
  • 1998 – Orlando, Florida. March 25–27, 1998
  • 1999 – Los Angeles, California. April 7–9, 1999
  • 2000 – New Orleans, Louisiana. April 25–27, 2000
  • 2001 – Anaheim, California. March 26–28, 2001.
  • 2002 – Seattle, Washington. April 16–18, 2002.
  • 2003 – New Orleans, Louisiana. May 6–8, 2003.
  • 2004 – Seattle, Washington. May 4–7, 2004.[5]
    • Discussion of Longhorn release timeline and upcoming service packs for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
    • Updated Athens concept PC design, named "Troy" based on a Longhorn user interface
  • 2005 – Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington. April 25–27, 2005.[6]
    • Bill Gates gave a keynote speech on various topics including Windows "Longhorn" (known later as Windows Vista) and 64-bit computing.
  • 2006 – Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington. May 23–25, 2006. Attendance of more than 3,700.[7]
  • 2007 – Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California. May 15–17, 2007.[7]
  • 2008 – Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California. November 4–6, 2008.[9]
    • Immediately following PDC 2008, held at the same venue, October 27–30.
    • Focusing on the then upcoming Windows 7.
  • 2015 – Grand Hyatt Shenzhen Hotel, Shenzhen, China. March 18–19, 2015.[10]

References
  1. "Announcing the return of WinHEC". Windows Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  2. "Bill Gates Announces the Availability of Microsoft Windows XP Beta 2". PressPass. Microsoft. 26 March 2001. Archived from the original on January 12, 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  3. Richard Fisco (7 May 2003). "WinHEC 2003 Keynotes". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
  4. "WinHec 2003". John Peddie Research. May 2003. Archived from the original on October 31, 2006. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
  5. Thurrott, Paul (7 May 2004). "WinHEC 2004 Show Report and Photo Gallery". SuperSite for Windows. Archived from the original on 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  6. "Trusted Computing group past events". Archived from the original on October 3, 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-02.
  7. "WinHEC 2006: Windows Hardware Engineering Conference". Retrieved 2006-09-02.
  8. Bruce Byfield (May 23, 2006). "FSF launches anti-DRM campaign outside WinHEC 2006". NewsForge. Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2006-05-28.
  9. "WinHEC 2008: Windows Hardware Engineering Conference". Retrieved 2008-09-06.
  10. "WinHEC 2015". Retrieved 2014-12-18.
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