Microsoft must steer 'Longhorn' in new direction
eWeek | at | by Mike
Even developers who are 100 percent committed to the Microsoft platform are complaining that its inherent weaknesses are killing them. There's a love-in coming to California next week, but it won't be grooving along in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Instead, it'll be headquartered in a boxy convention center in downtown Los Angeles.
The event will be Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, where thousands of programmers who create Windows applications and drivers will schmooze, share tips and learn what changes the software company is planning for its next major Windows operating system release. That, of course, will be "Longhorn," which will ship sometime in 2005 or 2006.