What the WinHEC? Microsoft revives Windows engineering event
Microsoft, which recently announced the consolidation of several of its conferences, is now going in the opposite direction and resurrecting WinHEC, which was last held in 2008.
WinHEC, first held in the early 1990s, was an annual engineering conference aimed at Microsoft hardware partners, with the goal of helping them better integrate their devices with the company's operating system and other software.
However, the new WinHEC will be different. For starters, it will not be a big annual event, but rather a series of smaller conferences and workshops held more frequently. The events will be tailored to the different parts of the world in which they will be held. To highlight this change in scope and purpose, the WinHEC acronym no longer stands for Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, but rather for Windows Hardware Engineering Community.
