If you're a Windows developer and you've been paying attention to the PDC news the past few weeks you understand why they are hyping the OS 4-5 years before it comes out.
They've FINALLY redesigned the Windows API and they want to get Developers on board as soon as they can.
As big of a change as ASP.NET was for Windows web developers, that's how big this change is for the Windows API.
Me? I'm still from Missouri when it comes to MS functionality. All the stuff they keep touting as "neat" and "new" and "you have to have!" (RSS feeds, pop-up blockers, shiney new butterfly styled buttons and frames) doesn't mean crap to me.
I'm sure that MS will render their RSS functionality irrelavent as soon as they decided to "embrace and extend" it, making MS RSS reader compatible feeds useless to anyone without a MS reader. So we'll end up having to write parsers/generators for TWO kinds of feeds, MS and everyone else JUST like we had to for web sites.
nah, I'm not bitter much.
