Microsoft's penultimates
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| A penultimate version is the second last one - and Microsoft's
| penultimate operating systems have generally been their best ones.
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| There was an MS-DOS 4.0 - but it's 3.2 that everyone remembers as the
| best of the MS-DOS versions.
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| Look at the history: Microsoft buys or copies something: makes a
| commercially successful version, starts an internal adaptation and redesign
| project that becomes a long running feud...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=828
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