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Longhorn to have managed interfaces
Part of the cunning .NET strategy
By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 03 September 2002, 12:29
SOURCES TOLD the INQ that Longhorn will have "managed interfaces" and that this refers to the Win32/64 API operating system interfaces, suggesting a comprehensive shake up in the software.
Currently the W32/64 application programming interfaces (API) are written in C++ and not considered "type safe".
.NET is "managed code", and has type safe interfaces but Microsoft appears to want to migrate these into the future OS, which is scheduled to be in the hands of early testers around this time next year.
Only .NET Framework, which is CLR-based code, uses "type safe" managed code.
But Microsoft has somewhat modified its stance on this. It told developers in July 2000 at an Orlando bash that this would happen when "Blackcomb" was released.
But Blackcomb hasn't been released, although it is supposed to be available by now. Microsoft needs to change the API on all the elements of its .somewhat .confusing .NET strategy
_http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5238
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