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Microsoft Lifts Curtain on Indigo Software
daria42 writes "Microsoft has released an early version of Indigo on the Microsoft Developer Network. Indigo is a new communications system intended to let Windows programs more easily connect to other software. Indigo was one of the three original "pillars" of Longhorn, however under the new plan it will be re-tooled to work with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, in addition to Longhorn."
Why didn't they just call it Purple People Eater and get the whole "scary" thing over with?
Will Prince's 1999 be the theme song for this technology or will they choose Purple Rain?
Will they get the Indigo Girls to do a version of Galileo that goes "how long til they get the software right?"
My name is Indigo Montoya -- you killed my father, prepare to die!
It is starting to look that way, which is a good thing. So rather than having to shell out the money for Longhorn just for security, and a little bit of inter-operability, XP owners can hang on for a while longer.
But the real reason, is that Microsoft wants developers to start using these technologies as soon as possible. If they back-port it to XP, there are already millions of potential customers for software built on the foundation. From my point of view, Apple had a tough time at the beginning with OSX. When a new OSX program cameout that would not run under OS 9, we were stuck with the old version. Then, after upgrading to OSX, we were stuck booting back into OS 9 to run a few programs that weren't compatible.
If I can avoid the same thing with the next version of Windows, I'll be happy. (Not as happy as I would be if Natalie Portman let me lick honey off of her body...but happier than if I had to eat chocolate cake from between Rhea Perlman's thighs)
No reason to lie.
Nah, just kidding. That will never happen.
I'm really glad to hear this. DDE, I mean, COM, I mean, I mean, OLE, I mean, DCOM, oh no wait, ActiveX, er, COM+, uh, LOL, um, Indigo! will be really great.
With the way they're promoting Longhorn, you could swear it was a religion. Next, they'll declare a jihad on Linux.
He's a witch! Burn him!
However, on a somewhat more serious note...
"It took an hour just to talk about all the security revamps in the kernel. Unfortunately, its all 'MS confidential' for now... "
... I think you have a real future working on a rumormill blog. You're supposed to post this stuff as an AC, though. :)