Miguel de Icaza (of Mono/Gnome/Ximian/Novell) has written up his impressions from the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference. Miguel gives his impressions of Microsoft's moves with Longhorn APIs, Avalon, Indigo, and more, and how it relates to Mono, Gnome, and open source in general. "Microsoft has taken another bold move in moving all of their new API development into .NET. Not only are the new operating system features cool, but they have turned them into an API... We have to leverage what is unique about Linux, iFolder, Gnome, Cairo, the VFS, our databases and expose those features to the managed world."
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