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forenoon filings

shiny, oh so shiny

windows is dead. long live windows!

The offical name for the next major revision of Windows was announced a few days ago. The internal codename Longhorn was given the shoehorn and the offical title is Windows Vista.

This is probably going to be one of the most crucial releases of Windows for Microsoft - which after surviving the anti-trust cases of the late 90's has been seeing it's various markets strongholds being encroached at alarming rates: Firefox's speedy take up against slowly ageing IE; the surge of iTunes and iTMS; the increasing importance of desktop cataloging-searching-indexing and asset management - as displayed by Apple and Google; and also a little-known system otherwise known as Linux.

So far, Vista is featured in the press section over at Redmond -

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 12:40 pm.

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