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Ted Leung (and others here and here) are worried about Longhorn taking over, especially from Linux. Now, everyone step back and take a deep breath.
Longhorn won't ship until 2006
Everything I've seen so far is very client-centric
Pay attention to that last part especially. While MS may be moving a lot of things to managed code, they aren't rewriting things like SQL Server and IIS. So anyone wanting to run a secure server is still likely to look at Apache and a non-Windows platform before they look at Windows. The game isn't on the client; that war is over, and MS won it a long time ago (quick, someone tell Sun). I'm utterly uncomvinced that the new stuff MS is doing will have a lot of server impact
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