Vic Gundotra - Simple, Safer and Sexier
Let's try this again with comment.
Frankly I have not kept up with the latest & greatest in Longhorn (the next Windows version) and Indigo (the interface layer), because frankly it is still at least a year out and I can say that the feature set is probably not as gelled as everyone would like.
What I do like is Microsoft is FINALLY doing what the rest of the industry have been trying to do for years - multi-tier programming which spits the user interface away from the logic systems. Sounds like they have been moving in this direction for some time, but it sounds like they are finally going to achieve it.
Anyone who has developed on Microsoft products knows it takes 3 versions of something for MS to get it right. Windows 3.0 was when GUIs took off. We have had a few more than 3 releases since Windows went to 32 bit, and they are finally getting it.
One thing that I hope happens is they start to build hooks into Indigo to call out to third party apps. I think with extensions, add on, etc. that many individual programs use there is an obvious need for this kind of ability. I also want to see scripting ability out of the box, not from third party stuff. The big problem with scripting is the MS products themselves.
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