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Linux Development Future

Post by kadnan »

Salam All

MS is comming up with new stuff in 1-2 years like winfx,avalon,Indigo,Xaml,XNA..

How OpenSource community is gonna reply for this move?initial previews indicate that M$ is making development process very easy

would like to hear your comments

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Post by mannan »

Linux future Rivalry tools for MS are :
Kernel 2.7
Reiser4 ( which was released but not too much stable yet )
Gnome 3.0


and too much which i can't remember right now :?
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kadnan wrote:How OpenSource community is gonna reply for this move?
if past performance is any indicator, the answer is "badly."
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winfx,avalon,Indigo,Xaml are available for download

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hi
Winfx,avalon,indigo and xaml are availble for download. it is for longhorn development. i have tried xaml and it is the best. you can download it from microsoft download site.
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Re: winfx,avalon,Indigo,Xaml are available for download

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how does xaml compare with renaissance?
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Post by fawad »

Personally, I dont see what's so revolutionary about XAML. It's been done over and over again before (glade, XUL, etc. comes to mind).

The avalon niche seems to be filled by cairo to some extent.


WinFX is likely to be managed wrappers over the Win32 API. Nothing to write home about.

To me, the only interesting stuff in the Longhorn stack is Indigo. It seems to me that it will have a profound impact on how applications will talk to each other.

Read Miguel's view on the Longhorn stack.
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