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Longhorn as the next Microsoft desktop domination play

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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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