Microsoft offers glimpse of the future
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft will attempt to whip up enthusiasm among its nation of developers next week when it shows off many of the pieces that will serve as the foundation of its technology vision of the future for corporate users. At its 10th annual Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, the company hopes to stoke that enthusiasm among 7,000 developers by delivering to them early versions of its long-awaited next generation operating system, development suite of tools, database, and Web services framework.
The show figures to be the first of many come-to-Jesus gatherings as a way to entice developers to start working on development and to win early mindshare. Given that some of the finished versions of the products such as Longhorn, the Windows XP successor, will not be available until 2006, it figures to be a long religious crusade.