Is Microsoft shifting concentration from .NET, Web Services?
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
No. A curious "Computerworld" report this week says that Microsoft is moving away from Microsoft .NET and Web services in the Longhorn wave, a curious misreading of the company's plans. If anything, Longhorn is the .NET release Microsoft promised us 3 years ago, with deeply embedded Web-services technologies, including a .NET-based communications and collaboration infrastructure called Indigo. Indeed, Microsoft is shifting the software-development layer away from API-based Win32 libraries to the .NET-based WinFX framework, meaning that .NET will be the core method for accessing Longhorn's programmatic features--for the first time in any Windows version. Anyway, don't believe the report: .NET is still very much at the core of everything Microsoft is doing.