If Microsoft is making Avalon, Indigo, and WinFX available separately from Windows Vista, doesn that “water down” Windows Vista and make it less exciting?
Absolutely not. These technologies are for developers only, and don’t impact the end user experience on Windows Vista at all. Most important, perhaps, Microsoft is making these technologies available to a wider audience now, so we’ll see more great Windows Vista-compatible applications earlier rather than later. Developers who are familiar with the .NET Framework managed APIs will be able to move to WinFX very quickly because the two APIs are so similarly structured. What does make Windows Vista less exciting is the wait. Microsoft has been promising us this OS for years now, and every passing year its once-phenomenal improvements seem less and less impressive. Don’t misunderstand: Windows Vista will be a huge Windows release and one that consumers, especially, will be interested in. But the wait has been painfully, very painful.
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