Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX

Posted by simoniker on Monday October 27, 2003 @07:47AM 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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RUN!!! by UrGeek · 2003-10-27 08:01 · Score: 1, Offtopic

"building apps that are as smart as Outlook." I don't know if Outlook or IE is the single most horrible security risk in the history of computers but they are both at least tied for first place. RUN!!!!
eesh by devphaeton · 2003-10-27 08:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Wow... Bill Gates looks like crap.

How old is he again?

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