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Microsoft Releases WinFX as .NET 3.0
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Since last January, Microsoft has used the term "on track" to describe how it delays its
release dates for Windows Vista, most notably last March. But today’s news from Microsoft that Vista RC1, announced last Friday, will be opened up to as many as five million participants for testing, included no mention of the now-infamous euphemism, thus giving hope to both users and developers that January may be the final kickoff date.
The new build - most likely numbered 5600 - will be released not only to TechNet subscribers but also members of the next Customer Preview Program (CPP), enrollments for which are expected to begin soon. With RC1 certain to become widely deployed in a short period of time, independent developers could soon find themselves with fertile proving grounds for Vista-oriented support products. For them, Microsoft released over the weekend another RC1: .NET Framework 3.0.
Like efforts in the past to extend a successful umbrella brand around multiple parallel projects (ActiveX Data Objects and the original Windows Server .NET both come to mind), this new edition of the .NET package isn’t exactly an upgrade to the item for which it is named. Rather, .NET Framework 3.0 actually includes .NET Framework 2.0 - installed on many systems already - plus the four libraries which would redefine Windows as we know it: the Communications, Presentation, and Workflow Foundations, plus the CardSpace identity library. BetaNews | Microsoft Releases ‘WinFX’ as .NET 3.0
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