Bill Gates launches Vista and Office 12 at PDC
Opening Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles yesterday, Bill Gates introduced the first public demonstrations of Windows Vista and Office 12. For him, these products are the fruit of five years’ development work to put XML into the core of its architecture.
The Register reports : “Windows Vista introduces a set of ‘Gadgets’ that enable information services such as RSS-enabled newsfeeds to run on the desktop, outside of the browser. Gadgets are pieces of XML, DHTML and .NET code, and are similar to a set of Java-based plug-ins for Apple Computer’s Tiger OS X 10.4 operating system.”
On the delayed WinFS storage architecture, now pushed into the future, Gates promised : “The deep idea of schematized information, rich links and information will come as WinFS comes out on both client and server.”
“Microsoft also plans to rival the increasingly popular Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) web client framework with a technology codenamed Atlas. Atlas uses DHTML and XML script to simplify the development of rich, interactive, browser-based applications,” says The Register.
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