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Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX
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."
Why is it that Microsoft has to change the API every time a new version of winblows is released. I mean many APIs surrive for over a decade without going through as many rewrites as MS APIs go through. Take X11 and the NeXT Step APIs, they've evolved and grown but surrived. I'll never understand Microsoft....
Later,
Phil
1) all your PC's are belong to us
2) "we are your overlord" - Led Zeppelin
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
MS should do what Apple does to make some money... charge money for incremental updates.
.1 that I have to pay for.
You could make an argument that MS already does this (Windows 98SE was a FIX to 98), but I have yet to see a Windows XP
I beg to differ. Many Outlook viri are embedded into HTML messages that require no user action to run.
1999 called, it wants its FUD back.
NO CARRIER
"Jealousy has driven more mistakes by my competitors than anything else," Gates said. "When people focus not on the next breakthrough, but on cutting off Microsoft, it's actually been quite a windfall for us."
"Sufferin' succotash."
the nazis had "glue" they made the jews wear.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
First, there was DevStudio (95 or so?).
Then, there was Visual Studio 97.
Then, there was Visual Studio 6.
Gotta love it...only in Microsoftland do version numbers "increase" from 97 to 6!
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