Microsoft later this year will look to populate the market for Windows Longhorn applications with development tools and the company’s own server applications, including long-awaited updates to the Visual Studio programming tool and SQL Server. Also, although Microsoft is still working on the next version of Windows Server, code-named Longhorn and due to ship in 2007, the company already has a team working on Longhorn Release 2 and is looking at the potential feature set for Blackcomb, the version that follows Longhorn.
Microsoft’s road map for Longhorn tools
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I had the opportunity to join Microsoft’s Windows-64 bit beta test and development. We got free Windows builds (good for 1 year), free compiler and tools and access to a lot of documentation.
I must say, Microsoft does know how to treat its developers.
I wonder if Apple will give developers free tools to build apps on Mac Intel? I sure would like to port some of our windows apps and see what the Mac/Intel platform can do. But I’d like to testdrive macOS and testdrive their tools.
I guess this would be the “never ending roadmap” to vapoware.
Lots of free tools with new and better features which make it easy to make new programs for longhorn is a great move. Give the developers the tools for free and they will take advantage of them fully.
Also the fact they have people already working on Longhorn R2 is something, I guess the first bit is on track, the sp2 release did slow down things but they are looking good again.
Because of the new moduler setup MS is going with now for longhorn, once the initial release is out of the way next year, future updates using .NET and so on will be easier and faster to make, plus safer since it’s on managed code.
Things look good IMO.
Apple gives some decent freebies when you’re a developer (paid for program member, technically). I’m not entirely up-to-date on what the whole package is, but it’s probably comparable. Also, xCode, the IDE for Obj-C (which is a central point to Apple, and very easy to work with), comes for free no matter what (paid or not) on the OS CD.
and look at the tech section…
microsoft is offering the indonesian government the option of paying for its pirated versions of Windows, for $1 on the promise they will be legal with future versions…
hmmmmmmm, wonder what would happen if microsoft forund Joe User had a pirated version, would he be offered the $1 per install deal.. dont think so.
However, it plays into Microsoft hands to stop one countries government from switching, like hundreds of others countries switch..
Indonesia should look for other options.
is charign 999 USD for their developers who are doing Apple a favor by portin apps to the x86 platform which will have to be returned by the end of the year is what I heard…yeah Apple is great. lol