Allchin's eye on Longhorn
eWeek | at | by Mike
As Microsoft Corp. prepares to unleash new software over the next year, including the Windows .Net Server 2003 family, the next version of its Office productivity suite and three server infrastructure applications, Jim Allchin, group vice president for platforms at the Redmond, Wash., company, sat down with eWeek Senior Editor Peter Galli in San Jose, Calif., to discuss this next round of software releases.
eWeek: What is really exciting for you in Longhorn, particularly around the next-generation technology for the enterprise?
Allchin: There's a bunch of work going on around what I call concrete plumbing, covering things like hot patching-the ability to keep machines running while you patch them-to all the work we're doing on standardized install. On the networking side, we have many ideas around how to create ad hoc groups on the fly. For example, if several laptops are in a room for a meeting, we want the PowerPoint presentations to be able to show up on all of them concurrently, to be able to project those up to the projector wirelessly or to synchronize what they're doing so they can make notes without having to do any setup to get the dynamic bonding in a secure way.