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[georgebitar]

Microsoft's technical guru Nathan Myhrvold has predicted that its Windows operating system will almost be consigned to history within five years.



Nathan Myhrvold talking on Radio 4's In Business
Windows is installed on more than 90% of the world's personal computers. Its dominant position has led to the US Justice Department's anti-monopoly case, accusing Microsoft of using the operating system to gain a similar stranglehold on the Internet.

But the company's chief technology officer told BBC Radio 4's In Business programme that every five years there is a major revolution in the computer business.

"It's virtually certain Windows will be superseded by something else within the next five years," he said.

"In fact, something may already exist, so today the seeds of the next contender to Windows - maybe its Linux, maybe it's Netscape Navigator, they've had a plan to turn that into an operating system, maybe it's the Java operating system. The seeds of the next revolution may be there now.

"Historically we know that many more seeds are planted than sprout into a successor but sometime in the next five years the successor to Windows will come about. We, of course, at Microsoft, hope that we're behind that. But if we don't work very hard, someone else will be."



Thanks,
George Bitar

 

[bwtc]

I have an AS/400 at home as well. It's rock-solid. But I would imagine it wouldn't be if I were to start installing shareware on it (not that there *is* any for it).

Quite the contrary... there are plenty of shareware applications for the AS/400 (iSeries, System i, name of the week)... the difference is that most of them are utilities, not games, etc...

 

[Welshbird]

Tee hee...




Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[dgrewe]

My most favoriate joke in the world is the story of 3 Engineers:

Once there were 3 engineers in a car on the way to a convention when the car stopped running.

The Chemical engineer got out and looked under the hood and after a brief examination said “It is not getting any Gas.”

The Electrical Engineer got out, looked under the hood, and after a very long examination said “It is not getting any Electrical Power from the Battery.”

The Microsoft Engineer sat in the car and said “Look darn it, Just roll the windows down, roll them back up and lets go.”


David W. Grewe Dave

 

[pmonett]

Grenage :

How is 2142 ? This is not the thread to discuss that, so I created a new thread here : thread1575-1364974.

Pascal.


I've got nothing to hide, and I'd very much like to keep that away from prying eyes.

 

[burtsbees]

What ever happened to OpenVMS???

Burt