Today Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., outlined Microsoft Corp.’s vision for the next wave of software development and detailed plans to help developers take advantage of the next wave of software opportunities at Microsoft® Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003. Highlighting platform software and development tools designed to enable developers to build a new generation of "smart," connected applications, Microsoft gave thousands of developers in attendance an early look at a technical preview of the next major release of Windows®, code-named "Longhorn." The company also unveiled the next-generation Windows programming model, named WinFX™, which provides a high productivity approach for building applications.
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