Web services, XML touted for Longhorn
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft Senior Vice President Jim Allchin at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference here on Monday touted the upcoming Longhorn release of Windows for its XML, Web services, collaboration, and storage capabilities.
Allchin's keynote followed a Longhorn presentation by Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, with Allchin's presentation interrupted several times for demonstrations of the technology. But developers, who are receiving early code from Longhorn at the conference, will have to wait a while for the finished Longhorn product. A first beta release is not planned until the second half of 2004, with general availability expected in 2006.