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Re: [News] [Linux] Microsoft's Anti-Linux Tactics Named "Scareware"

On 2007-05-28, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:

> What Longhorn was supposed to be:
>
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=b9ifQvQCO7Y

Oh yeah. It turned out *exactly* like that. They diidn't drop anything,
goof anything up or leave anything behind. And it was right on
schedule, too.

>| For the record, Microsoft officials never claimed Longhorn, the 
>| release of Windows now known as Vista, was cancelled. Instead, 
>| Microsoft execs said they "reset" their plans for Longhorn in 2004
>| by decided to cut the Windows File System (WinFS) feature from the
>| product and to use the Windows Server 2003 kernel as the core
>| platform. But a number of developers and industry watchers have
>| said they considered Vista to be a far cry from the operating 
>| system Microsoft originally demonsrated and described earlier
>| this decade.

> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=471

See?

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