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Microsoft said its willingness to file patents on its planned Indigo Web-services technology will not affect the software's ability to interoperate with other vendors' software. Developers, meanwhile, will not need to pay license fees to...

Indigo and Avalon are the codenames for two strategic developer technologies that Microsoft plans to ship in 2006 as part of the Windows "Longhorn" operating system. In addition, Microsoft is making these technologies available on...

Microsoft on Wednesday plans to release the first preview version of Indigo, giving developers a chance to test drive the new communications subsystem for Windows. Set for general availability in 2006, Indigo is intended to...

It's looking more like Longhorn will get key orchestration features derived from BizTalk Server. Microsoft is working on workflow and orchestration technology, called WinOE, or the Windows Orchestration Engine, for the Longhorn/Orcas timeframe, several sources...