“Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.”

— Steve Jobs

Comparing the progress of Mac OS X and what would eventually become known as Microsoft's Vista, at the MacWorld San Francisco keynote address (January 2005) http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf05/
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