Microsoft watch

BizTalk server: ESB Toolkit 2.0 due mid-June

Charles Young — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:03:47 GMT

Wow...three posts in one day - a world record for me.

According to Brian Loesgen, ESB Toolkit 2.0 for Biztalk 2009 will be released mid-June.

A little triva...

Charles Young — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:03:00 GMT

Here's a little useless trivia. Just under a month ago (27th September to be precise), The US Patent & Trademark Office granted patent 6,951,022 to Microsoft Corporation. Filed on March 14^th 2001, it had taken a little while to go through the system. The patent was for ...drum roll please... "Delegate-based event handling". So now we really can be sure that's one C# feature Java won't have for a very long time!

WinFS features not being cut

Charles Young — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:49:00 GMT

I posted on the BusinessWeek article about Longhorn a few days ago "The 16 year slip". Jeremy Mazner has issued a detailed rebuttal of this article on his blog site. So I take it all back. A 12 year slip, only.

The 16 year slip

Charles Young — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:03:00 GMT

In a BusinessWeek article, spookily dated 19^th April, I’ve read that Microsoft is currently backtracking significantly on Longhorn functionality. Longhorn is now expected to ship in first half of 2006 with reduced features. The article specifically suggests that the new OO filing system (WinFS) will be cut down to work on local machines only – i.e., won’t be network-enabled. The full WinFS won’t be introduced until the end of the decade. I remember the early 90’s when Microsoft said we would have all this stuff in place by 1994 – anyone remember Cairo? Mmmm. 1994 – 2010. A 16 year slip!!

http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_16/b3879009_mz001.htm

and see the sidebar at http://news.com.com/2009-1017_3-857509.html for an interesting stroll down memory lane.