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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. That's a goal? by ChaoticChaos · · Score: 5, Funny

    "building apps that are as smart as Outlook."

    I was hoping they'd shoot higher than that.

    1. Re:That's a goal? by drivers · · Score: 5, Funny

      So what you're saying is, Outlook will swallow any worm: hook, line, and sinker?

  2. Re:At least they'll be able... by warpSpeed · · Score: 5, Funny
    Outlook is already the lower layer of scum in the scpetic tank, after all.

    Hey, that scum in your septic tank does a pretty important job... don't start comparing it to outlook to it, that's just mean....

  3. Re:Can we please stop the FX branding theme? by Zeebs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well my best guess would be that it would be F i X, as in you'll still be F i Xing this when we change the API again.

    --

    Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
  4. Re:Can we please stop the FX branding theme? by mattgarnsey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Geforce FX, WinFX - this is starting to get about as in style as neglecting the leading E on words such as Xtreme and Xpress.

    it's because many of the e's had to be prefixed to Commerce, Business, Solutions, et al in the late 90s...

    i expect a shortage of i's to appear soon as well.

    there's a finite number of vowels, you know!

  5. Simpson's quote by Shamashmuddamiq · · Score: 5, Funny

    The magic 8-ball says: "Outlook not so good"

    Bart: Wow, it does work!

    --
    ...just my 2 gil.