Are you going to one of the Longhorn Developer Preview events or Developer
Days 2004 events around Europe end of this month or beginning of February?
If you are, I have a question for you. I’ll be talking about Indigo
and I am in a demo dilemma. My slide deck, like the ones that Steve, Joe, Don
and the others showed at PDC, reflects mostly the status quo of the Indigo M5
milestone that is currently in development. The problem is that there are no M5
bits that I could show (there are not even M5 bits I could get). The PDC
Longhorn build contains the Indigo milestone M4, whose programming model is
very different – the “final” programming model for all of us happens
to be added only in M5; whatever is in M4 is really an “internal”
programming model that exists for testing purposes.
So what should I do? Spend more time explaining how things are going to be
in the real thing (M5 and going forward into the Beta) or spend that time on
doing M4 demos? Personally, I’d rather cut the demos entirely or show simply
what needs to be done to get the SDK samples to run so that you have a starting
point if you really want to play with the early bits. Make yourself heard; comment
here.