What Road Ahead for Microsoft and Windows?

This article reports on Microsoft, which has once again pushed back the release date for the update to Windows XP. The update, formerly known as Longhorn, is now known as Windows Vista and has been over five years in the making. The new release date for the consumer version is early 2007. The author...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 7; pp. 21 - 24
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Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2006
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