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I did some search (not too difficult) on my previous post and yes a patch has been launched today. But not yet on automatic update. check the Start menu on your PC and ask for windows Update

From BBC website. I am not sure but it seems to be new flaw.

The preview day is always an expected event, especially when it's a first one I participated, because I don't remember Microsoft having other preview before.
First detail for the Microsoft team, we are talking about Dublin, so understand mental traffic, and total grid locks.

So please next time, can you try a start at Am rather than 8:Am. Not everybody live on Stillorgan road.

OK, now back to the main story, the conference. 5 parts, Longhorn overview (David Chappell), Avalon (Lester Madden), WinFS (Hans Verbeeck), Indigo(Clemens Vasters) and Whidbey (Nigel Watling).

I don't know if it was the time, but everybody was so silent. No loud 'Developers, developers, developers', no clapping, just a religious silence.

I can tell that Clemens Vasters had the most difficult part Indigo, with no demo, and just after lunch, the right time for a nap. By the way, very interesting piece of technology which will be made available before Longhorn, something for next year.

Just few thoughts on what I saw today. But before of course this is just my opinion and maybe I am wrong.

Avalon presentation give me this idea of deja vu, and after few demos I got it. It was seeing Logo meeting XML. No I am not joking. For the youngsters, Logo is this brilliant language created in the 70s/80s, using the concept of turtle to draw anything. XAML has this notion embedded in it, of course using more an XML approach, but the attributes, the coordinates, etc.. are stuff already done in the past.

The thing I don't get with Longhorn is that as developers, we can create a lot of nice things, but only for Longhorn users. for the other OS, we have to provide a downgraded version, so no fancy rotated animated button.
If I am right, Longhorn is not a server, so how we will deploy a navigator form for other platforms ? The answer this morning was not expected, create 2 versions of your application. Not sure I like that.

Well I am not going to post too much about this non-event but believe me it's still strange those kind of round numbers, when your birthday come.

Every decade make you closer to a dinosaur than a cheetah, but hey what can we do to stop the clock?

Next post will be on the Longorn Preview day in Dublin with some thoughts. One I can already post in this note is this.
I saw some nice graphics showing the evolution of storage and the quantity of information we're dealing with today.
The point related to my post is the date. Having now 1970 out of the graph make me feel older. 1980 was the first entry just on the left corner and I suspect will disappear soon.

I'm joining the crowd tomorrow to see the first Irish official presentation of Longhorn and Whidbey tomorrow in Dublin (By the way it's kind of funny that it will be also my 40th birthday ;-)).

Well Duncan and other Irish bloggers, maybe we can meet somwhere in UCD tomorrow ?

Let me know. And for the birthday cake, I like chocolate ones ;-)

Thanks to Colt Kwong for this link to Flesk.Uploader.

By the way have a look to their other tools. One seems to be a good idea to avoid bloated pages with viewstate.

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