Microsoft to color Web Services 'Indigo'
eWeek | at | by Mike
Although some are predicting that Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Longhorn operating system will be the star of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) here, the real show-stealer looks to be the company's new Web services framework, codenamed Indigo.
Microsoft will unveil its Indigo strategy Monday morning at the PDC. The new scheme represents a significant change in direction for the software giant, in that it is acknowledging service-orientation and service-oriented programming as the wave of the future. And while Microsoft programmers will not be forced to hop on that wave, it will become the default way to program in the Microsoft environment.