On the road on The Road to Longhorn

I leaving shortly for Den Haag for the first installment of the Longhorn Developer Preview Tour throughout Europe as part of the Dutch Developer Days 2004. We start tomorrow and I am quite excited since this is the first time I will speak about Indigo in any detail to a larger audience. I've witnessed Indigo "forming" from a distance when the team was still in "stealth mode" and it's great to see how it comes along.

But be forewarned: In my talk there will be no live demos. I have 75 minutes for the talk and I had to decide whether I concentrate on explaining the "M5" milestone that is currently in development in Redmond and which implements the (likely) final programming model or whether I allocate more time to the M4 model found in the PDC build. The decision that I made was that M4 is so different from M5 that unless you want to get a major degree in Longhorn development history or have way too much time on your hands, learning and therefore showing M4 code is almost pointless. I will show code, but it won't run.

If you want to check out how this first run of my talk goes (as usual, I don't really rehearse talks so this is as spontaneous, "fresh" and probably embarrassing as it gets on this tour), Microsoft Netherlands will have a live webcast tomorrow that you can log into at http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/msdn/devdays/webcast.asp.