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2010 has been Microsoft’s year undoubtedly. With the innovation and announcements of Microsoft’s visionary products like Kinect , Windows phone 7 and release of Office 2010, Internet Explorer 9 Beta, Microsoft is sure on the Cloud 9. Looking into 2011, expectations from Microsoft are higher. Microsoft Events are a platform for Microsoft to showcase these new technologies and innovations to the world. For 2011, following events are lined up by MSFT.

CES 2011: CEO Steve Ballmer is the kick-off CES keynoter on January 5 at 6:30 p.m. PT. Some people are expecting Microsoft to share details about plans to port Windows to ARM and/or about Windows 8.

Dynamics CRM 2011 launch: The virtual (Webcasted) launch event is January 20, 2011, for Microsoft’s “CRM 5? release. The Online version of the product will be available in January; the on-premises version in the first quarter of 2011.

Mobile World Congress 2011
: In February (14-17 in Barcelona), Microsoft is expected to talk up some of its future update plans for Windows Phones as well as about “Mango,” the next release of the Windows Phone OS (possibly 7.5).

Microsoft MVP Summit: This year, the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) invite-only summit is slated for February 28 to March 2 in Bellevue, Wash. Already got an invitation for the same being an MVP.

Game Developers Conference 2011: Kinect updates can be shared by MSFT in this event. (GDC runs fromFebruary 28 to March 4 in San Francisco in 2011.)

Microsoft Management Summit 2011: In Las Vegas from March 21 to 25, MMS will be dedicated to the latest on all products and services management-related. Expect possible updates on Windows Intune, the various System Center products, virtualization and more.

Convergence 2011: The annual confab for Microsoft Dynamics ERP/CRM customers and partners is April 10 to 13 in Atlanta.

Mix ‘11: A Silverlight 5 Beta and IE 9 final release are expected @ this event which is happening in Las Vegas from April 12 to 14.

TechEd 2011: Microsoft’s annual educational conference, where the talks focus on already-announced products, is happening fromMay 16 to 19 in Atlanta this year.

E3 2011: This year’s game extravaganza is June 7 to 9 in Los Angeles. As usual, lots of Xbox, Xbox Live, games and game peripherals should be on the agenda.

Worldwide Partner Conference 2011: It’s @ Los Angeles again for Microsoft’s annual partner confab, taking place from July 11 to 14.

Professional Developers Conference 2011: No dates or location on this one yet, Expected announcement is a public beta (or at least a Community Technology Preview) of Windows 8 just like Windows 7 CTP in PDC 2008.

These are a few events listed @ ZDNet. If you know about any more event we can update the same. Time to plan some travel for all MSFT fan boys & enthusiasts. Smile

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