FYI, Microsoft has released a bit info about the upcoming OS, codename Longhorn. It contains among other things the "Avalon Graphics Engine".
Are they naming after OSS projects to deliberately "water down" these efforts?
Dunno about that. Avalon used here is Apache Avalon, so it is sufficiently different ;P
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