Bill: A sucker at heart

I’m a sucker for cool computer shit, actually any cool techie stuff, so that probably explains some of my excitement watching this Microsoft Longhorn application demo. The presenter, one of the Longhorn evangalists not named Robert Scoble, states that the demo takes advantage of new features in the Avalon, WinFS and Indigo subsystems to produce what would be a really impressive real estate application from a new company called RE3W if it really worked as shown. The application works across company lines using secure connectivity, integrates communication (email and IM, I think), sophisticated graphics to bring an amazing level of automation to the commercial real estate purchase process. I would love to find out, however, how much of the application’s impressive functionality requires Longhorn’s capabilities and how much can be done today using, say, C++ or Java even though more coding would be necessary.