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With Windows 7, Microsoft faces a future full of challenges
Published 10/26/2008 at The Seattle Times: Microsoft
When the company divulges details of Windows 7, the successor to much-maligned Vista, it will do so against a backdrop of growing competition from Apple, a battered Windows brand and the global economic crisis.
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