Microsoft is officially launching Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Windows Server 2003 on April 24^th, 2003 in a 60 city blitz reaching 70,000 developers with the main launch site being San Francisco. Local events will feature an early breakfast event, an opening keynote, and three breakout tracks: IT Pro track; Developer track; and Architect (both infrastructure and application) track.

Developer Track:

• Visual Studio .NET 2003 – Tools to Power Your Vision
• Mobile Application Development with Visual Studio .NET 2003
• Windows .NET Server 2003: The next generation application server
• Visual C++: The developer’s power tool

Architect Track

• Architecture Principals for Enterprise Applications
• Designing Enterprise Applications with Windows .NET Server
• Strategies for Interoperability and Integration
• Deploying Manageable Applications with Windows .NET Server

This news item will be updated as more information is released on this event.