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G. Andrew Duthie  list a lot of impressive and awaited improvements in Whidbey IDE.

That sounds fab, but why in such a long list, some stuff has not been already implemented in VS 2003 ?

If you want to know more about those guys feelings on the PDC read their interview in PressPass:

The virus emerged at the weekend and is multiplying because so many versions of Windows are vulnerable.

Many people are thought to be falling victim to it because one version poses as an update from anti-virus firms.

It also tries to hide by using many different subject lines in both German and English and by changing the name of the payload holding the virus.

Available here.

Well it wasn't not long until somebody put the PDC on IRC ;-)

The Whidbey release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework will represent a significant milestone in the Microsoft developer tools roadmap. Following the SQL Server Yukon and Visual Studio Whidbey wave of products, the next major platform update will be the Windows operating system release code name "Longhorn". The Whidbey release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework will run on this landmark operating system release, as will applications built with Visual Studio Whidbey.

In February 2002, software developers and architects worldwide were introduced to Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework. This landmark release, four years in the making, offered a unified development environment and programming model for constructing a range of software solutions. With the recent launch of Visual Studio .NET 2003, customers gained the benefits of enhanced tool and framework functionality, as well as increased performance, security and scalability for building enterprise-critical software.

Just curious and because I like to tease Redmond a bit ;-)