Microsoft details next version of Visual Studio
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
With its first iteration of Visual Studio .Net just a few days more than six months old, Microsoft on Thursday began revealing details of the next version, as well as an upgrade to the .Net Framework. When taken together, Visual Studio .Net and the .Net Framework form the core of Microsoft's tools for building not just the highly evangelized Web services, but also what the company is calling smart client applications and a peer-to-peer fashion computing initiative dubbed participatory computing.
As part of its strategy to make Web services pervasive throughout its entire software stack, Microsoft has been saying for several months that it plans to eventually implant the .Net Framework into most of its server products, including SQL Server, as well as the desktop and server operating systems.