Microsoft Building Integration, Management into 'L

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Microsoft Corp. is hard at work to make "Longhorn," the next iteration of its Windows Server product, do more for less by integrating various server software systems.

To do it, the company plans to extend .Net's capabilities even further with common execution environments and complete .Net Common Language Runtime support, said Valerie Olague, a Windows Server System director, in an interview. In addition, when Longhorn ships (expected late next year or early in 2006), the new WinFX set of managed APIs that are designed to supersede Win32 will play a big role across all the server stacks, said Olague, in Redmond, Wash.

"Customers will look for all server products to be essentially enabled for the new programming model around WinFX support," Olague said.

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Could a mod change the thread title from Microsoft Building Integration, Management into 'L to MS Building Integration, Management into Longhorn? :blush: