2.7. Прочитайте и переведите отрывок из речи б.Гейтса. The Future of Application Development: Presentation, Business Logic, Data Access and Web Services

So let's take the first area, which is presentation. Of course, this is what had the big revolution as we moved from character mode to graphics mode. Graphics is well-established, great control frameworks that let you do neat things, particularly Windows Presentation Framework now is a great way of doing those things. We still have users and GDI, and many applications calling those, but more and more the new applications are calling the Presentation Framework. Of course, here what you need depends on the particular application. If you need to run in the browser environment, that's where things like Silverlight come in. If you're willing to take full advantage of the client-side richness, then you can do even more.

This will change as we have touch, it will change as we have 3D environments. That idea of quick 3D rendering to create virtual worlds, that is another thing that I expect will be fully mainstream over this next decade. There's been a lot of times people have said that was ripe, but really the performance and the tools were not there to make that happen. It's partly due to the graphics chip work that's come from games support that we now have in all of these personal computer devices, even somewhat in the phones, that let us be more ambitious in all presentations, including even 3D.

Now when you're connecting up through the Web, of course, the browser is the runtime you're connected to. And we've had a renewed effort to really invest in Internet explorer. It's an important product for us. We put out Internet Explorer 7.0 not long ago. We're hard at work on a new version of that, so-called IE8, a very creative name that we've come up with. And you're going to see the beta for this coming out in August of this year. Actually, that's Beta 2, it will come out within a month of that with support for over 20 different languages, and it's got some very interesting things that I'll just mention briefly here. It's got activities where you can take a set of things you do on the Web and group them together. And so that will be very important. And then it's got what are called slices, which are essentially small Web pages where you can highlight the portion of your page that should appear when somebody has not got it in a full-size window. It lets you get at the snippet type things, and provide a persistent presence in a very simple way, and we've made that extremely straightforward. It's, I think, a very neat new idea. So, we're going to be going through these developer features in the breakouts here. I encourage you to take a look at that.

IE8 is also a big milestone for us in terms of neat things that end users can do, as well. So it's got that duality, like all great software releases, neat, exciting things for end users, but also opportunities for developers, so that their Web site can light up and be better on IE 8, while still continuing to work well with earlier versions of Internet Explorer, or other browsers, as well. So that's one aspect of the presentation layer I thought was particularly worth noting.