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InforWorld’s half-hour podcast last night is an interview with Bill Gates, following a morning of keynotes at the PDC.Topics of discussion include:

• The relationship of Office 12 to Vista and .NET
• How the .NET CLR and runtime will become widespread
• High-level semantics: CLR objects or XML?
• LINQ, or language-integrated query, Anders Hejlsberg’s long-term ambition now coming to fruition
• The RSS data web, notification, SOAP/REST synergy, enterprise syndication
• WPF/E, aka Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, aka portable Avalon
• Why, given the downleveling of the original Longhorn "pillars" to XP, enterprises would still want to upgrade to Vista.

  Listen to podcast | Read all the Interview transcript

  Source : InforWorld