Microsoft lays out Whidbey, Orcas tools roadmap
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft today offered a few new glimpses into its tools roadmap and enhanced its industry partner program to further grow its ecosystem around its tools. Speaking at the VSLive! New York 2003 conference, Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Server and Tools at Microsoft, gave glimpses of future versions of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, including the next version of the technology, code-named Whidbey, and the subsequent version code-named Orcas.
Orcas will support things like managed interfaces based on managed code, enhanced user interface features, an improved data model and other new capabilities tied to the Longhorn operating system, which is expected in 2005.