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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. Ever changing APIs by pstreck · · Score: 1, Troll

    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....

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  2. Re:That's a goal? by Chester+K · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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