Zdnet article talking about Indigo
Just back from the UK where I took a 10 day break. It is amazing to see how badly my home country deals with a hot summer. As Steven Livingstone said the rail companies seem unable to run trains once the temperature rises.
Just noticed this interesting article on Zdnet : Microsoft Web services plan targets Java
(http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5061198.html).
The problem about these articles is that the journalists are not developers so you get pieces like this :
"Indigo could accelerate the development of Windows-based Web services, according to people familiar with Microsoft's plans. It would do this by allowing the operating system to handle much of the heavy lifting related to ensuring the security and management of applications in use, they said. Indigo is expected to incorporate the latest advances in Web services standards in security, reliability and transactions. "
Which seems to say a lot but really tells you very little.
I am using "Desktop Sidebar" which used to be available from http://sidebar.tech-critic.com . Anyone know what happened to it ? I have the XP taskbar in autohide mode at the top of the screen a la Chris Sells and then Sidebar is on the righthand side also in transparent mode. I find it great way to keep up to date with rss feeds as well as the weather.....oh dear I must be buying into some of the Longhorn concepts.