Beware of geeks bearing 'presence'

I should be the Chief Architect!: "I think the idea that your address book should be usable by other applications, that your calendar should be accessible by other applications--that is a big part of Longhorn," Gates said. "We move those rich user schemas down into the platform so that applications can all get at presence and phone numbers and annotate the address book, instead of things like each application having its own address book."

Boy! I've been saying this for the last 10-15 years. They just got it at MS? Wow...; Posted by: Not average Joe Posted on: 03/17/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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