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Microsoft Corp. this week officially started the process of driving interest in its next-version Windows client operating system, code-named Longhorn. The Redmond, Wash., software titan turned its attention to the developer community in the hopes that they will start building a wealth of new applications to run above the operating system. Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief technology officer, took time to talk to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli from the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
What is the core of your message at this year's PDC?
In the 1990s we began to establish a new platform, a connected universe of which traditional computers were just a subset, that was established on two applications--e-mail clients and Web browsers. Now that that has happened, it's time for the programmers to do it again. So, the idea behind this PDC is that it is the starting gun in the race for new applications that will include a recasting of pretty much everything we've ever done before in terms of business software....
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