Programming Windows: A Lap Around Longhorn (Premium)
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At the conclusion of Bill Gates’ exciting PDC 2003 opening keynote, which featured Hillel Cooperman showing us Microsoft’s proposed Longhorn user experience for the first time, Microsoft’s chairman ceded the stage to Jim Allchin, the amiable and soft-spoken engineer who led the Windows team. Where the Gates keynote focused on the flash, the Allchin keynote—which was called “a lap around Longhorn”—focused instead on the nuts and bolts of Longhorn app development. And to understand that, Allchin explained, he would start with the following “eye chart,” a detailed architectural representation of the .NET-based WinFX APIs.
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