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Nothing of .Net in Longhorn?

Posted by Zonk on from the missing-technology dept.

turnitover writes "We've been waiting for Longhorn before we really get on the .Net train, but should we bother at all? According to Mary Jo Foley at Microsoft Watch, Longhorn won't be based on .Net at all. Foley, who's usually right on target, calls this MS's 'dirty little secret'." From the article: "We're guessing that Microsoft will maintain that nothing has changed-that no one ever promised that the .Net Framework 2.0 would be the foundation for Longhorn. But developer types we've been chatting with seem to find this update a newsworthy revelation."

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  1. What did they expect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What did they expect? That the Longhorn will kernel would be written in C#?

    Look at the way Visual Studio is evolving. Of course they have a huge codebase written in C/C++, and slowly new components are being added that run on top of the .NET Framework.

    It would be plain stupid to rewrite the whole OS using .NET - not only would that delay the shipping process, what added value would it mean to the customer?

    Being a .NET developer, the thing I really look forward to is having the .NET framework built in in a version of Windows. Given that, there is no need to ship the .NET framework with my application. That would be huge.

  2. When technology ignorant people make news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This article is complete rubbish. Microsoft NEVER said that Longhorn would be "based on" .NET. Never. Not once.

    In fact, when asked, they've repeatedly said that would NOT be the case.

    What Microsoft is doing, and what they've said they would be doing since they first announced Longhorn, is to create a .NET-based API that completely (or almost completely) exposes the Win32 API as native .NET libraries.

    In addition, some parts of Longhorn would be written using this managed API. The new Explorer.exe, for instance, is a mostly managed application.

    This woman's ignorance is the real story here, not her foolish conclusions and strawman arguments.