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Article: 'Leopard' puts its prey on the spot: APPLE TAUNTS MICROSOFT WITH FASTER OS LAUNCHES.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2006
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Byline: John Boudreau
Jul. 5--In 2004, when Apple Computer showed off its latest "cat," Tiger, it couldn't help but taunt Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash., software giant was working on its long-awaited next-generation Windows operating system, Vista, known then as "Longhorn." During Apple's annual developer's conference in San Francisco, when its Tiger operating system was unveiled, the company jabbed at its mighty competitor with posters that read: "Redmond, start your photocopiers," "Introducing Longhorn" and "Redmond, we have a problem." In roughly the same time frame that Microsoft has labored over Vista -- its predecessor, Windows XP, was launched in 2001 ...