Re: Microsoft Preps for the 64-Bit Wave

From: Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] (velthuis_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:10:24 +0100

DS wrote:

> Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] wrote:
> > Oh yes, it does.
>
> I'll get you back on this, but I need some sleep now... :)
>
> > > I pretty much doubt it. WinForms is almost legacy already and
> > > they're putting much effort into making Longhorh GUI HW
> > > accelerated (as MacOS is for some time now).
> > I don't much care about WinForms. I care about the underlying
> > runtimes, GDI+, and the rest of the FCL, which will most certainly
> > not be abandoned. And the acceleration would exactly achieve what I
> > wrote above.
>
> No way! GDI+ is going away.

It may become deprecated and superceded, but I doubt it will go away.

> I remember reading in MS personell's blogs that, albeit they will
> provide Avalon's functionality as add-in for XP and 2K3 users, it
> could not benefit from new driver model, as it is too deep embedded
> in Longhorn's core.

Could be. I'm sure .NET now is not what it will be then. The core
classes will remain, though. 

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