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| | Microsoft Makes Longhorn Performance Promises |
 | | Just weeks before the Beta 1 bits are expected to hit, Microsoft has committed to some specific metrics around the kind of fundamental improvements Longhorn will deliver. |
| | For the past several years, Microsoft has been promising that Longhorn would deliver some substantial security, reliability and performance improvements. |
| | But until the worldwide partner conference in Minneapolis in mid-July, company officials had not quantified the benefits that Longhorn — the version of the Windows client operating system, due in 2006 — would deliver. |
| www.microsoft-watch.com /article2/0,2180,1838263,00.asp (1210 words) |
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