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"Asian Pirates Sell Microsoft's Next Windows System
2 hours, 41 minutes ago
JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's brazen software pirates are
hawking the next version of Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system
years before it is supposed to be on sale.
Underscoring the scale of U.S. companies' copyright problems in Asia,
CDs containing software Microsoft has code named "Longhorn" are on sale
for six ringgit ($1.58) in southern Malaysia. Microsoft's current
version of Windows, XP, sells for upwards of $100 in the United States.
The software is an early version of Longhorn demonstrated and
distributed at a conference for Microsoft programmers in Los Angeles in
October, Microsoft Corporate Attorney Jonathan Selvasegaram told
Reuters.
"It's not a ready product," he said from Malaysia. "Even if it works for
a while, I think it's very risky," to install on a home computer, he
said.
Chairman Bill Gates (news - web sites) has said Longhorn, which is not
expected to be released before 2005, would rank as Microsoft's largest
software launch this decade. "
Do you think this OS will sport a nifty new 3D interface that would
require a good DX Card? :-)
Virtual Reality!??
Total voice activation!??
....
....
prettier BSODs? ;-)
-Gel
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