When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gave computer makers a brief look at Longhorn on Monday in the US, but acknowledged that many of its key features will not be evident until much later test versions of the new Windows.
Even as its steers developers toward the forthcoming edition of Windows, Microsoft is building tools to write applications for the Mac OS and the Web.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates tried to win over developers in Los Angeles Monday in the U.S. as he offered the first look at Longhorn, the next version of Windows.
With its US$3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems is buying into a crucial battle to shape the next generation of Web application development.
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COMMENTARY -- Longhorn will be immensely popular once it is released, because Longhorn is revolutionary technology that makes desktop computing better.
In digital documents, Web applications and image editing, Adobe has a healthy head start. But Microsoft is making some noise.
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