[linux-l] [FYI] Longhorn as the next Microsoft desktop domination play (fwd)

[Peter Ross]

Hi Leute,

weil gerade von Longhorn die Rede war..

Gruss
Peter

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:00:00 +0100
From: Axel H Horns
To: debate at lists.fitug.de
Subject: [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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