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Linux Vs. Windows 7: The Coming Showdown
Published 11/3/2008 by thegline@optonline.net (Serdar Yegulalp) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
It's inevitable. With Microsoft's showcasing of Windows 7's pre-beta edition at PDC, the Boys From Redmond have thrown down a gauntlet to the Linux community that's been angling to take over the netbook market (and then maybe the desktop). Anything you can do, they say, we can do better.
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