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WinFX on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

Time: 04:00 EST/09:00 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner

At PDC 2003, we laid out a vision of the future that was embodied by "Longhorn" and, from a developer perspective, the WinFX programming model. The PDC enabled us to show some of our technology to the world and to start soliciting feedback on where we were going, as well as show the world how serious we were about managed code.

Earlier this summer we emerged from shipping Windows XP Service Pack 2 and reviewed our "Longhorn" plans and all the feedback we've gotten since PDC. There was a lot of feedback to go through. The core feedback that came up time and again was "get the 'Longhorn' advances into the hands of customers sooner rather than later" and "make WinFX available on previous versions of Windows."