As Microsoft heads into next week's TechEd conference, developers will be staying tuned for details on Microsoft's upcoming platform trifecta of new versions of Visual Studio (Orcas), SQL Server (Katmai) and Windows Server (Longhorn).
While all three are due for release within the next year, their contents and delivery dates remain in flux. Katmai is slated for its first community technology preview (CTP) release any day now, and Orcas recently advanced to its first beta release, but its feature set isn't locked down.
Last month, Microsoft quietly cut one significant planned advance, announcing in a blog that it will pull the ADO.NET Entity Framework out of Orcas and ship it as a separate, later update.
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