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Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gotta-reinstall-every-month-or-two-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Microsoft changed their minds and are planning a new OS release before Longhorn. They are calling it XP Reloaded."

2 of 871 comments (clear)

  1. Re:and in other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Reloaded" is just an internal designation. It will most likely be released under a different name in order to avoid lawsuits.

  2. Probably good for Linux by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 5, Informative
    An interim release between XP service pack 2 and Longhorn indicates that Longhorn is going the way of Chicago and NT 5.0. Those, if you'll recall, were overly-hyped software releases that were delayed ... and delayed. And delayed.

    And delayed. Point is, to me this indicates that Longhorn's release date just became slightly more tentative than it was before. Which is a good thing for alternative operating systems like the growing and ever-improving GNU/Linux.

    And in the short term it's a good thing for Microsoft, as some people are likely to fork over the $100 (or whatever) upgrade.