Installing the PDC build
I’ve got the PDC build running on my box. Jim Allchin was right; it isn’t exactly screamingly fast – at least in Virtual PC. Here are a few notes:
· Needless to say, but: Have a dedicated box for Longhorn or use Virtual PC. I’ll likely get a new box when I am back at home. Sounds like a machine brutally optimized...
Forte needs some time
Stephen's world is ruled by tables, rows and columns. That's fine. WinFS uses the power of Yukon to index anything it stores; but what it stores doesn't end up in rows and columns. There's goodness in mixing these things. I'll keep working on my relational friend. I'll succeed.
PDC: Rebooting the blog after the keynote: Indigo in a nutshell
Here’s my quick, two sentence definition of Indigo in order to give you an idea about the scope of this thing:
Indigo is the successor technology and the consolidation of DCOM, COM+, Enterprise Services, Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX), WSE, and the Microsoft Message Queue. It provides services for building distributed systems all the way from simplistic cross-appdomain message passing and ORPC to cross-platform, cross-organization, vastly distributed, service-oriented architectures providing reliable, secure, transactional,...
PDC Countdown: 30000 feet above ground
I am somewhere above Canada right now, on board of the KLM 747-400 named „Seoul“ (Reg. PH-BFS), which is flying in a passenger/freighter configuration from Amsterdam to Los Angeles today. My seat is 74J, which is on the upper deck. It’s always cool to fly on the upper deck of a 747, regardless of class. Some airlines, like British Airways, use the upper deck for economy class, some, like KLM, seat their...
PDC: Best keynote … ever.
The PDC keynote, featuring Bill Gates, Jim Allchin, Don Box, Chris Anderson and, on video, John Scully, Marc Andreesen, Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, Sean Combs (P. Diddy) and lot of other folks ... was easiest the best, most substantial, longest and fun keynote I've ever seen. And I've seen very many.
Longhorn, the Aero shell, the Avalon programming model, WinFS and Indigo rock already and they are going to get better and better as time progresses.
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