by Julie Bort

XP beats Vista in Olympic Games

Analysis

Aug 9, 20071 min

Microsoft’s newest OS, Vista, has been rejected by the 2008 Olympic Games, while wireless networking won’t even be a player. Windows XP was chosen to run on all PCs handling chores vital to the Olympic Games, and has been installed on most of the PCs delivered by Lenovo Group.

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by Julie Bort

Julie is also author of Building an Extranet (Wiley, 1997).

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