Indigo, Avalon Community Technology previews released
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Microsoft on Wednesday released its first Community Technology Preview of "Indigo," the code-name for the company's new communications subsystem for Windows, and a second CTP of "Avalon," a new Windows presentation subsystem.
Indigo and Avalon were originally slated to be two of the four pillars of the Windows "Longhorn" operating system release. In August Microsoft decided to make both available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as well.
Also on Wednesday, Microsoft released a new version of the .NET Framework and an SDK for WinFX, a next-generation programming model for Windows. The releases are available to MSDN subscribers.