'Whidbey' paving path for Microsoft's Longhorn
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Paving a path toward its next-generation Longhorn operating system, Microsoft next month will seed the developer community with an updated pre-release version of its next Visual Studio .NET platform, code-named Whidbey.
Ari Bixhorn, Microsoft's product manager for Visual Studio .NET, said a more mature build is slated for release at the company's upcoming Visual Studio conference slated for March in San Francisco. Bill Gates is scheduled to deliver a keynote on Whidbey.
"We're planning to go to a full public beta in mid-2004 and release-to-manufacturing (RTM) by the end of the year," Bixhorn added.