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As we head towards the PDC later this month, Microsoft today pre-announced some of the things you can expect to see there. To meet the evolving needs of service-oriented applications, Microsoft is extending the capabilities of Windows Server, by adding a set of capabilities, "Dublin", aimed at making it easier to deploy, manage and monitor WF/WCF applications. For developers creating WF-based solutions, this is great news, because it means you will get an enterprise-grade runtime environment to host your WCF/WF. Prior to this, the only WF host from Microsoft was MOSS, you would have had to write your own host, which is a non-trivial task. Now, Microsoft has solved all those hard problems for you. If you're a BizTalk developer, then rest assured that you will get a host too that will run in this platform, and that all your investments are protected, BizTalk Server 2009 and the roadmap was announced recently, I blogged about it here.