Manifest files are plain XML files. When users point their browser to the specified deployment location, Longhorn automatically downloads and installs the application and its manifests on the client computer and creates a shortcut to the.deploy file. At the end of the process, users run the application by clicking on the.deploy file.
Doesn't this sound a lot like activeX's goals. Now it's just sugar-coated with XML and more proprietary BS. I can almost read the CERN advisories now!
The capaign party is running IIS. www.whitehouse.gov is running Apache on Linux.