Microsoft Switches Horses in Mid-Stream

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Microsoft is officially changing the name of its next generation Operating Platform from Longhorn to Windows Vista.

Personally, I think this is all a bunch of crap to sell needless software. I think they should let XP go open source like Linux and give up the ghost--why staff legions of customer service reps to service a product that the free market could make far better anyway.

Now, I'm no computer programming expert, but I thought that the move away from a DOS-based system with XP was the ultimate in a Microsoft OS. Why not just make that one better rather than forcing their customers to get used to yet another platform?

But that's just me. I won't be upgrading until I absolutely have to and by then I'll probably have wised up and switched to Apple.