Day: October 28, 2003

Here is a quick roundup of the Longhorn news that I’ve seen whizz past my aggregator this evening:

• Longhorn aggregation
• Feedster PDC Buzz
• MSDN Longhorn Dev Center
• RSS for Longhorn Dev Center
• Clemens Vasters
• PDC: Best keynote … ever
• PDC: Rebooting the blog after the keynote: Indigo in a nutshell: “Indigo is the successor technology and the consolidation of DCOM, COM+, Enterprise Services, Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX), WSE, and the Microsoft Message Queue. It provides services for building distributed systems all the way from simplistic cross-appdomain message passing and ORPC to cross-platform, cross-organization, vastly distributed, service-oriented architectures providing reliable, secure, transactional, scalable and fast, online or offline, synchronous and asynchronous XML messaging.” Wow.
• Jeremy Allaire
• Avalon and XAML, Royale, Laszlo and MXML. Another wow.
• Scott Hanselman was burning up his blackberry covering the keynotes
• Bill Gates part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6. Extensive keynote.
• Jim Alchin part 1, part 2 and 3. No reboots, Avalon, WinFX.
• Don Box, ChrisAn, Jim Alchin. Emacs on Longhorn!
• Don Box and ChrisAn. System.MessageBus.
• Greg Gilley. Fun with XAML.
• Amazon and conclusion. Them web services might just take off.
• Pictures. I want to see screenshots of the new interface.

That’s all I have for now, but I have a feeling that this is just the beginning.