.Net is supposed to be the be-all and end-all of programming interfaces, yet Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch is reporting that .Net, C#, and managed code are not good enough for use throughout the Longhorn edition of Windows. She reports:
"...the .Net Framework will be the core for a small subset of Longhorn, specifically the Windows API Platform, which consists primarily of the Avalon Windows presentation system and the Indigo Windows communications system.
"Maybe Microsoft's revelation on Wednesday that the .Net Framework 2.0 beta is breaking applications has something to do with this? We're waiting for official word back from Microsoft."
Microsoft convinces everyone else to use .Net but can't cope with using it itself. Says an insider: "A big benefit of the new plan is that developers don't have to move to .Net if they want to use new Longhorn features."
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