[FYI] Longhorn as the next Microsoft desktop domination play
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33679.html
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Longhorn as the next Microsoft desktop domination play
By John Lettice
Posted: 30/10/2003 at 13:58 GMT
Microsoft's shiny new (but not entirely finished) Longhorn operating
system is a move to reassert and to extend the company's weakening
control of the desktop, according to Gartner analyst Michael Silver.
He claims, effectively, that Microsoft is using the introduction of
new technologies in a decidedly old-fashioned and tried and tested
way, using APIs and file formats to outflank, isolate and lock out
competition.
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