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<a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20050428/1051254_F.shtml">Microsoft: Longhorn Is Great, XP Is Lame</a> Software vendors walk a fine line when pushing upgrades -- tout the new version without slamming the old one. Microsoft threw that strategy aside in pumping Longhorn to the WinHEC faithful, as execs >belittled Windows XP in the process. One VP said that XP hadn't been thought through and at times "failed to deliver." The surprising part is not that XP has major shortcomings -- early on its enhancements were recognized as little more than href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20010824/0856205_F.shtml">improved stability and href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20011008/0111217_F.shtml">a bunch of bug fixes. Rather, the interesting part is Microsoft actually admitting to drawbacks at all, even several years late. But Longhorn, now there's a >real operating system! align="right">[via href="http://www.techdirt.com/">Techdirt]
Microsoft: Longhorn Is Great, XP Is Lame
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