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Long Road to Longhorn To End with Windows Server 2007

ActiveWin.com might be in the running for a Pulitzer after breaking this whopper of a news story. The site claims -- get this -- that Longhorn will be officially named Windows Server 2007. Now there's a scoop of Woodward and Bernstein proportions!

Our author Stuart Johnston is guessing Windows Server 2008 might be a more accurate name.

Posted by Doug Barney on January 23, 2007


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