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| Time: 08:15 EST/13:15 GMT | News Source: Internet Week | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Thanks, Gary. Microsoft plans a major cleanup of the Win32 API set and XML application markup language (XAML) to make its next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, as friendly for developers as it is for users.
First, the software giant aims to slash the number of API calls in the Win32 API set in order to help developers better exploit the next-generation Windows shell, user interface (code-named Aero) and .Net framework components in Longhorn, according to sources familiar with the Longhorn plans.
"Win32 has like 76,000 APIs, and they're taking it down to 8,000 with Longhorn technology," said one source familiar with the plans.
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| #1 By 6859 (206.156.242.36) at 5/6/2003 9:19:51 AM |
| Cool, but will it be faster? |
| #2 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/6/2003 10:37:55 AM |
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"I know he can get the job but can he do the job?"
This post was edited by sodablue on Tuesday, May 06, 2003 at 10:38. |
| #3 By 5444 (64.185.17.235) at 5/6/2003 11:54:31 AM |
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All I can say is Avalon.
El |
| #4 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at 5/6/2003 12:42:12 PM |
| I imagine they'll have an OldWin32API subsystem that old Win32 apps will run on, and the new Win32/.NET apps will run on the new Win32 API/.NET hybrid |
| #5 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/6/2003 1:28:54 PM |
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Pjotr - "I read somewhere earlier that devolopers would need to rewrite there programs to work under longhorn. "
I believe that comment was made by Dvorak or Foley, so I wouldn't trust it. It also referred to the new filesystem, and I suspect developers only need to rewrite if they intend on taking advantage of new features. |
| #6 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at 5/6/2003 2:05:00 PM |
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soda: Yeah, I think you're right.
As far as the filesystem, I read that there will still be the NTFS APIs, but they will be slower than the WFS APIs. But I'm not sure that most apps will have to be rewritten since the filesystem APIs are abstracted and FS type agnostic (i.e. apps don't care whether it's FAT32 or NTFS). |
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