Microsoft Provides WinFX Details.

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Microsoft Corp. officials are spending a lot of time at this week's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles explaining some of the core technologies in Longhorn, the next version of the Windows client operating system, and the scenarios they enable.

At the same time they stressed that existing applications will continue to run on Windows Longhorn and that if developers want to add some of the new Longhorn capabilities to those applications, this can be relatively easily done through the new WinFX programming model.

"All of the APIs that are available in Windows today will continue to work and continue to be compatible," Joe Petersen, the vice president of the Windows Client Group, told eWEEK. "The new capabilities that we are exposing through WinFX are additive as it provides a new program model for writing applications in a richer way than you can today."

"All of the NTFS (NT file system) APIs will...

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