Today's half-hour podcast is an interview with Bill Gates, following a morning of keynotes at the PDC. (Update: transcript here.) Topics of discussion include:
- The relationship of Office 12 to Vista and .NET
- How the .NET CLR and runtime will become widespread
- High-level semantics: CLR objects or XML?
- LINQ, or language-integrated query, Anders Hejlsberg's long-term ambition now coming to fruition
- The RSS data web, notification, SOAP/REST synergy, enterprise syndication
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WPF/E, aka Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, aka portable Avalon
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Why, given the downleveling of the original Longhorn "pillars" to XP, enterprises would still want to upgrade to Vista.
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