Microsoft to Color Web Services 'Indigo'. microsoft to color web services indigo. Microsoft will unveil its Indigo strategy Monday morning at the PDC. Microsoft will unveil its Indigo strategy Monday morning at the PDC....

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....

Microsoft releases Avalon, Indigo previews. microsoft releases avalon. Avalon and Indigo are two of Longhorn’s "fundamentals :" Avalon is the presentation subsystem for Longhorn and Indigo is Microsoft’s next-generation platform for Web services....

Longhorn beta to have near-complete Indigo. longhorn beta to have near. Microsoft's first beta of Longhorn will include a nearly complete version of the product's web services-based communication framework, code-named Indigo. Microsoft’s first beta of Longhorn will include a nearly complete version of the product’s web services-based communication framework, code-named Indigo. A Microsoft partner said that engineers working on Indigo had nearly finished their work....

Late this afternoon, a Microsoft spokesperson also confirmed that Indigo, the company’s ambitious platform for inter-application communication that would enable sophisticated Web services, remains a core component of Longhorn, adding that it "will also be made available on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP." Last week, another Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that Indigo will operate as a Web services platform without any reliance whatsoever upon either Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) or Internet Information Services (IIS). Also presented, along with Indigo, was a very rich graphics subsystem code-named Avalon that appeared capable of adding dimension and form - not just "skin" - to windows and on-screen devices. Last August, Microsoft brought its Indigo communications subsystem and Avalon presentation subsystem projects together, under a collective umbrella called WinFX....

For the fashion conscious, Gamecube will initially be available in two colors, Indigo and Jet Black. Incidentally, it seems like there's always a fancy color option available in Japan that you can't get here in the states, like the Special Pikachu Edition of the Game Boy Advance I got ahold of.) In addition, you'll be able to purchase additional controllers in four colors, Indigo, Indigo/transparent configuration, Jet Black, and Spice (orange); memory cards; Nintendo Power Player Guides, and......