Windows gets a splash of Indigo
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft wants Windows to play well with others. To do that, it's recoating the future in Indigo. The software giant said last week that an early "preview" version of a new communications system being built into Windows, called Indigo, will be in software developers' hands in March.
To most people, the Indigo software will be invisible, simply a recast set of "plumbing" that only software programmers will interact with. But if Indigo lives up to Microsoft's ambitions, its impact will be great, according to industry executives and analysts.