Longhorn (the long awaited next version of windows) includes various pillars.
The major areas are:
The major areas are:
- WinFX – Managed OO replacement for the Win32 api
- Avalon – vector graphics based UI expressable in XAML
- Indigo – communication stack (web services, remoting and some COM+)
- WinFS – The really long awaited meta-data aware filesystem
In the same timeframe the linux world has
- Mono – Open source implemnetation of .NET Framework
- Cairo – SVG based graphics ui
- Beagle – personal search tool to provide the benfits of WinFS
Mono is trying to investigate implementing Indigo. However this may have licencing issues.
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