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Story: Microsoft offers peek at Longhorn
Posted by: Olav Petri (Tuesday 26 April 2005, 11:00 AM)
It's still vaporware. Nothing to see. OS X has already been out for years and even compared to the vaporware, still has a much smaller system requirements and more flexibility. If Longhorn ever does ship, it will probably foist an alpha version onto the market, just to be able to claim that it shipped in 2007 or whenever. Win95 was essentialy beta when it shipped. MS simply found it cheaper to run a PR campaign to re-adjust the public's expectations for computers from being reliable to being buggy, unstable, and insecure.
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