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September 29, 2003 | Comments: (0)
No Aero in PDC quiver
Programmers looking forward to playing with Aero, the GUI-to-be within Microsoft's forthcoming Longhorn operating system, will just have to wait.
At this year's upcoming Microsoft Professional Developer Conference, a.k.a. PDC, attendees will receive a Longhorn build. That is, a Longhorn build minus the code comprising Aero.
Paul Thurrott reports that developers instead will get a Longhorn version in which Microsoft strips out the Aero code. The glimpse of Aero will come during Bill Gates' keynote at the conference.
Developers do have something to look forward to, however. As Thurott wrote:
What developers will receive at the PDC, however, is very interesting. For the past several weeks, the software giant has forked the code for Longhorn, developing a special PDC build that is separate and distinct from the main code fork. This build will include virtually every Longhorn technology except Aero, and will include a new, darker theme that supplants the lackluster Plex visual style seen in alpha Longhorn builds. Microsoft is currently struggling to complete this special PDC build in time for the show, which will be held in late October.
I read about this by way of Peter O'Kelly's blog, by the way.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 29, 2003 01:52 PM
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