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Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX

Posted by simoniker on from the antlers-mounted-on-wall dept.

Theaetetus writes "Microsoft today unveiled its most detailed look yet at its new OS, Longhorn, due in 2006, during Bill Gates' keynote speech at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. An article at Internet Week describes some of the goals: avoiding viruses, worms, and 'building apps that are as smart as Outlook.'" The company "also unveiled 'WinFX,' which it described as a new application programming model for Windows that is the evolution of its .NET programming framework."

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  1. Re:Goals? by TheNetAvenger · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Most of *any* speech recognition is going to be from research done on [cough] *nix machines of the past decade

    Yeah, the Billions in research MS spent has nothing to do with speech technology. You are kidding right?

    You do realize that MS had speech recognition software back in 1992 (Windows Sound System ring a bell?)

    Additionally, IBM has had business level speech recognition hardware and software since the late 80's. Again, not on *nix platforms.

    So where are the great *nix speech recognition and synthesis applications?

    Hell, it would be nice if most *nix variants could even multiplex sound in real-time.