More Buzzwords and Acronyms
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Group VP Jim Allchin is up. He's providing info on the Avalon/Indigo/WinFS code that will make Longhorn tick. More buzzwords to remember: WinFX, the successor to Win32; ClickOnce, the "equivalent of Xcopy to a machine" that will make application install/deinstall a snap; SuperFetch, a feature designed to improve and speed up the current paging system; XAML, a declarative markup language that will separate code and content in the next generation of Windows applications; and MSBuild, a unified build engine for Windows, the Windows software development kit and Visual Studio. More deets on all of these goodies to follow . |

