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Microsoft Lifts Curtain on Indigo Software

Posted by samzenpus on from the plays-well-with-others dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Yet another lock-in scheme... by ADRA · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not proprietary, but well patented.
    EG:
    "RSA WS-Security: SOAP Message Security Patent License Agreement Instructions

    RSA Security has identified four patents ("the RSA Patents") we believe could be relevant to implementing certain operational modes of the OASIS WS-Security: SOAP Message Security specifications. To obtain a reciprocal royalty free license to the RSA Patents to make, use and sell products conforming to the OASIS WS-Security: SOAP Message Security specifications, a customer or partner must sign the attached Patent License Agreement."

    I imagine there are more of these out there..

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  2. Re:Cool - A malware framework. by The+Bungi · · Score: 4, Informative
    The article mentioned "WS-Security" - but I have no idea what that is

    That's probably your problem. It's a standard used with SOAP message exchanges. It provides authentication, integrity and confidentiality (nee encryption and a few other things).

    As long as you trust the .NET framework (as far as its ability to protect you from, say, buffer overflows) then the WSS implementation for Indigo should be safe enough to use. It would be no different from anything written with JNI, for example.

  3. Re:XP - Longhorn by SnprBoB86 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Everyone is forgetting about Aero

    Alvon is to Quartz as Aero is to Aqua

    Aero is not being backported to WinXP. Avalon, Indigo, and WinFS are going to be supported of WinXP; this makes Aero THE reason to upgrade to Longhorn.
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  4. Re:XP - Longhorn by McCart42 · · Score: 3, Informative
    "2.) XP's image viewer is nice for viewing sequences of images."


    I actually prefer IrfanView for this purpose on my W2K install. It has many more options than the built-in XP image viewer, such as lossless JPG rotation.
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  5. Who is the target audience? by ChicagoDave · · Score: 4, Informative
    I've read through much of the witty banter on /. regarding Indigo, Longhorn, Avalon, and WinFS.

    I can only assume that the people that understand how XML, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration effect large corporations have remained silent.

    The people that have replied have stated clearly that they don't know what Web Services are, have never worked with XML, and don't understand how EAI has changed the way businesses do things.

    Indigo is an extraordinary technology that will very likely be copied by IBM for Java (IBM and Microsoft both partnered on all of the WS-* standards) and will usher in a whole new era of interoperability for the business world.

    If you're even the slightest bit curious about what this is all about I suggest the following reading material:

    http://www.ws-standards.com/

    http://community.java.net/java-ws-xml/

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/p illars/Indigo/default.aspx

    WinFX Indigo Docs

    http://pluralsight.com/blogs/tewald/default.aspx I'm sure there is a lot more.

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