Arran

This is amazing stuff.  When i first heard of Avalon i really did doubt that Microsoft would get the designers right!  When acrylic came out i was expecting that to be it and did not hold out too much hope for sparkle.  How wrong was i.  After leading teams of developers and graphic designers on projects i really do understand how much use this is going to be.  The increase in productivity and quality of software UX is going to be amazing.

Please hurry and get some CTPs for this out the door.

Looking forward to more PDC videos!

rhm wrote:

Still, even Nelson Mandella didn't change the world, just one country in the world.  How does XML rank in the ladder of human achievement?

I mean, I'm as happy as anyone about the new Office file formats, but there's no need to turn Channel9 into Sycophancy-Central.

Channel9 made it onto the register

http://www.theregister.com/2005/05/05/_taylor_linux/

Yeah the Avalon stuff does look really good, an i will be having a look at it as soon as they release a CTP for VS Beta2.

I keep seeing MS say that Longhorn Beta1 is this summer and Beta2 the fall.  Is it just me or do they seem close together?

When you think about most of the beta programs for example VS2005.  Beta 1 Summer/Fall 2004 then Beta2 Spring 2005 and as big a project that VS2005 is i am sure Longhorn is many times bigger.

I get the feeling that Beta2 will slip to spring 2006.

Balclutha wrote:

I think Mondad sounds splendid and I am very excited to see the command line interface evolving into something more powerful.

However, in the video Jefferey claims that MSH is more programmatic than Perl, Python and Ruby. I'd be interested to know what are the features that make MSH more programmatic than those languages? Did Jefferey have particular MSH language features in mind when he made that comment?