Microsoft Longhorn beta to feature near-complete Indigo

Posted on Monday, July 18 2005 @ 8:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Microsoft will likely release the first Longhorn beta by the end of this month or in August and InfoWorld reports it will include a nearly complete version of the new Web services-based communication, codenamed Indigo.

A Microsoft partner familiar with Indigo's product development cycle told the IDG News Service at the recent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) that engineers working on Indigo, which Microsoft promises will simplify the creation of Web services, had nearly finished their work.

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