Microsoft paints clearer picture of 'Indigo'

Microsoft Corp. shed more light on its plans for building connected systems, by highlighting its next-generation Web services technology, code-named Indigo, at the VSLive conference here Tuesday.

In a keynote presentation, Eric Rudder, senior vice president of servers and tools, said Indigo is "a natural extension to the .Net Framework," which will enable developers to build more secure, reliable and interoperable applications on Windows that will be able to interoperate with other applications no matter what the underlying platform.

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