Thursday, March 16, 2006

Windows Vista will not use .Net

After all, .Net is taking some time to lift off. The following articles extracted from a good discussion on the borland newsgroups show us how the new Windows operative system ended up not relying on the .Net framework.

http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vistaAndDotnet.htm

and ...this other ones covering the API and GUI.

http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2006/03/10/549310.aspx
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1272

Personally, I'm more interested on future native Win64 support. If Intraweb is able to catch up and improve its performance (which they did in version 8), then i will not have any other use for .Net (which i think is only useful for web apps for us Delphi developers) in the short term.

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