'Niobe' enters the Microsoft Matrix
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft is testing a prototype tool designed to streamline the development of applications based on Outlook. Microsoft is fielding a prototype of a new tool that eventually could become a member of its Visual Studio Tools for Office family. The prototype tool, code-named "Niobe," is designed to simplify the development of applications built on the Microsoft Outlook e-mail client.
The 'Niobe' code name is fitting, as the Visual Studio Tools for Office suite, which Microsoft delivered last year, was code-named "Trinity." (Microsoft's Visual Studio Tools for Office are designed to aid developers writing applications that build on top of Microsoft Office.) Both Trinity and Niobe, as film buffs know, are characters from The Matrix movies.