http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1585522,00.asp
While Longhorn has been discussed repeatedly in this blog, an aspect which has not received as much attention as it should is that of backwards compatibility. As the indexed article suggests, a lot of things which worked with previous Windows versions will not work with Longhorn. Balancing the needs for operating system effectiveness [and, increasingly, security] with those for gegacy support is a contentious quesiton at the best of times. But in this case, abandoning legacy support may make sense to Microsoft in economic terms as well.
An alternative to abandoning legacy support is to retain it with the added reliability of Linix, as discussed in this article:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1586641,00.asp
The fact that Linux can run legacy Windows applications with ease may be one of its major competitive advantages in the Longhorn future.
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