[FYI] Longhorn as the next Microsoft desktop domination play

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

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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