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Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, came close to tagging 2006 as the release year for Longhorn, the next version of Windows, but analysts aren't so sure his
March 31, 2004

With Longhorn's release out so far into the future, it's impossible to predict what the OS landscape may be in two or three years. "The challenge for Microsoft is what happens if Linux becomes 'good enough,'" said Wilcox.

Then the pressure might be right back on.

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