The second day of PDC was all about Windows 7. Microsoft Windows Vice President Steven Sinofsky showed the new OS's main features on stage and after it, the OS was shown on PCs throughout the Los Angeles convention center. From 1:30 PM on the same day, PDC 2008 atendees could get a free copy of Windows 7, and a black 160 Gb Westerd Digital Passport hard drive disk with several software:
- NET Micro Framework development kit 3.0
- Azure Services Training Kit, a set of hands-on labs, presentations, and samples.
- Live Framework SDK, documentation, samples and tools to build on top of Microsoft's Live Services.
- Software Development Kit for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (pre-beta)
- Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Express Edition
- Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0 CTP
- Windows Azure software development kit