After it ships the “Whidbey” and “Orcas” versions of its popular Visual Studio tool set, Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Studio development team is headed for “Hawaii.” Hawaii is the code name for a version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio tool set two versions beyond Whidbey, also known as Visual Studio 2005, according to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans.
Hawaii’: A Visual Studio Paradise for Developers?
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“Planning for Orcas will sort of start full steam later this spring or summer”
First we have Longhorn, with its feature announcements that keep getting rewritten, and now we have this. Given past history, what’s the point in believing anything about an MS product until it’s actually released?
Well I am as annoyed as anyone else regarding Longhorn’s release, but in the DotNet camp MS has delivered pretty much everything they promised, in a reasonable timeframe.
Actually DotNet is IMO the best thing leaving Readmond since the long gone Windows NT.
the name is deceptive. Hawaii is beautiful and has a high cost to visit and live.
Agreed. .NET is the first thing that came out of microsoft that I took seriously.
However, I think they should concentrate on optimizing the Runtime and JIT Compiler instead of creating a “Battlestar Galactica” Visual Studio with everything integrated.
There are some very large performance bottlenecks in the current JIT implementation that need to be fixed ASAP. And once they fixed those they should concentrate on letting the .NET VM utilize parallel processing units such as SSE2, AltiVec etc. effectively.