Here. "The weight of the company is behind Longhorn," Poole said. "This is a huge bet for the company. It will really change the landscape of what people see."

Here. "During his keynote address on day two of the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft Senior Vice President of the Windows Client Division, detailed his company's roadmap for delivering Longhorn, the next major Windows version."

Sorry for the long wait. There’s been two whole books written between the last release of Genghis and this one. Here’s the list of new features:

• Everything works under .NET 1.0 and 1.1 (except HandleCollector)
• MSN Messanger-style popup window
• UI Type Editor for use with ImageList index selection
• AppBar implementation
• Text file search
• Themed controls
• Single instance application support, including passing command line args from other instances
• Multiple top-level window support
• Many enhancements and fixes to the command line parser
• Splash screen class
• Improved WebCommandLineHelper class which now works with .NET 1.0 and 1.1, includes URL decoding and requires no additional permissions (although it does require a server-side HTTP handler, included as the ConfigFileHandler class that maps requests for foo.exe?bar=quux.config to the foo.exe.config file)
• WizardSheet updates
• Status Bar Extender for mapping status messages to Windows Forms controls

Thanks to my new build master, Mike Marshal, who got all of this together. He’s the greatest!

Here. 'nuf said.

Here. The one where Windows Server 2003 kicks Linux's butt on serving files.

Here. From Keith Wedinger: Java development has a number of advantages over traditional environments which output machine language. .Net has the advantage of hindsight, however, and has improved on Java in a number of areas.

Here. I've been buried in Applied XML DevCon talk proposals, but I'd really love it if some more non-Windows talks would make it my way. Tomorrow's the deadline. Tell your friends!

Here. "With the next round of Windows, which we call Longhorn, this idea of the completely new presentation system and the standard user interface guideline requiring that rich graphics capability will take a leap forward and fully exploit the extra graphics capabilities. In fact, the way the experience will work is that people with even today's hardware will want to move up to the advanced graphics capabilities."