OSNews: The Old GNU Nov 6, 2003, 13 :00 UTC (28 Talkback[s]) (11842 reads) (Other stories by Tom Onoma)
"I do not believe Microsoft would have had the motivation to purse many of the ideas presented at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) had it not been for the competition Linux presents. I may be wrong about this, although this seems to be a typical strategy" of Mr. Gates'. Either way, the fact remains, Microsoft is now pursuing a course to 'revolutionize' computing once again.
"Longhorn is innovative in a number of ways. One of its major strengths is that it is almost entirely built upon an overarching and increasingly refined architecture called the .NET framework. The .NET framework is composed of the common language runtime (CLR) and a unified set of class libraries, providing developers with a core one-stop shop for all their programming needs..."
