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Info on the Longhorn project: http://longhorn.ms/ http://longhorn.ms/
by bluejekyll 10y ago
Info on the Longhorn project: http://longhorn.ms/ http://longhorn.ms/
- pjmlp 10y agoWindows 8 base design is basically Longhorn to certain extent. They brought COM+ Runtime back from the grave, exchanged the COM type libraries for .NET metadata and renamed it WinRT. At the same time C++/CLI syntax was repurposed for C++/CX this time doing AOT compilation to native code. Similarly, .NET went through two new AOT compilation toolchains, first the MDIL binary format used in Windows 8.x, followed by .NET Native introduced in Windows 10. Which begs the question if the Dev and Windows devisions weren't so busy fighting each other, maybe just maybe, Longhorn would have had the UWP application model instead of Windows having gone through all these releases until they had settled their differences. Now it still remains to be seen how much it will eventually matter. This was just an example, there are others regarding other technologies, for example Symbolics had quite a few internal fights. http://danluu.com/symbolics-lisp-machines/ http://danluu.com/symbolics-lisp-machines/