Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Some links and news

Soon this person may also be joining us in blogging. Most of us use Microsoft products in our workplaces. But I bet you never knew how Microsoft develops its software. Kicha, some good news for you, I think you might soon get to play around with these tools.
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5 comments:

  1. Kishore6/30/2004 06:45:00 pm

    Jax, I already had a taste of those tools when I attended the Microsoft Developer Days event... Enhancements in Visual Studio 2005 suite is not phenomenal in any way.

    But SQL Server 2005 (code-named "Yukon") is a dramatic improvement over its predecessor. You can now write stored procedures from .NET and it would have a database system which would eventually be followed by Longhorn (next version of WinXP due in mid-2006) as its file-system. Imagine.. a file-system that uses a database to manage files...!! That is Longhorn for you..!!

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  2. Jax7/01/2004 08:33:00 am

    I think Avalon (the filesystem you mentioned) has been scrapped. I think I read about it somewhere. (Will get the link soon). Also I don't think Longhorn would be released only during mid 2007, according to the industry buzz.

    We have to wait and see...

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  3. Kishore7/01/2004 07:02:00 pm

    I checked with the Microsoft folks here.. Here's the update straight from the horse's mouth...
    Avalon is still on.. its has not been scrapped.. In fact, its also going to expose APIs that would enable developers to design applications that take advantage of specific "internals" of the file-system. Longhorn is still slated for mid-2006. But Microsoft has had a reputation of not sticking to deadlines.. so we never know about that...

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  4. Jax7/02/2004 08:58:00 am

    Kicha, I still think that the WinFS has been put on hold and Longhorn will use NTFS.

    I will locate teh article and send it to you. You also provide me details.

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  5. Kishore7/02/2004 01:15:00 pm

    I don't have any links or articles to show that Avalon is on.. but thats what Microsoft folks told me... so I hope they are not telling lies about their own company...

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