PDC: A guide for the perplexed
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft Group VP Allchin whipped through a lot of slides and information during his nearly two-hour keynote here at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference on Monday. But by the end of his talk, we didn't learn much more than we already knew about the ETA for Longhorn, which is currently expected to go live in 2006.
On the front end, Microsoft is providing support for a new markup language called XAML that "lets you build a Windows application in a declarative way." Allchin said XAML will make applications easier to learn, write and read because it allows developers to separate code and content. XAML sounds like a rival to XUL, but no Microsoft officials have made that comparison publicly so far.