The Future of Computing
I've been hearing some opinions floating around reguarding the future of computing. In summary there are 3 realms of computing (generally speaking). They are:
1. What OS will control the Desktop?
2. What software solution will provide our basic business tools?
3. What OS will control our Servers?
In my opinion the answers to the above three questions will be:
1. Mac OSX will control the desktop
"That sounds ridiculous!" I hear you saying. This year Apple unveiled their plan to switch their chipset from the Motorola and IBM over to Intel ("Apple switches to Intel Chips"). The crazy thing is that you can already get a hacked copy of OSX (called "OSx86") and install it on your current PC if you have the right chipset. read more... All this say, I believe Apple will have more people running the Mac OS than Windows within 5 years!
2. Microsoft will continue to rule the Office Solutions
Yeah, yeah, no big suprise here. They have a solid solution. I think they will continue to rule the office software domain. There aren't any serious competitors that would have a chance of taking over the majority position of market share.
3. Linux will rule the Server
It's free. It's solid and it's everywhere.
UPDATE:
Another interesting thought I heard from someone is that Apple will make it so a user can dual boot both Windows and OSX on their Apple machine--but won't be offering OSX as a Windows install. I suppose it makes sense. Apple makes their best profits from their hardware. They'd want to try and nurture that as best as possible. Here's a demo of the current version of Virtual PC. (Flash demo showing how it currently works) http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx?pid=vpcdemo
Notice how the Windows app runs almost like its a regular app in OSX. The one major drawback is that it runs at only 1/3 of normal speed as it would in Windows. In a dual-boot scenario the speed would be the virtually the same.

1 Comments:
I dunno man.. I love OSX, I really do, I really love it. But apple ain't cheap and humans tend to be hideously cheap. Linux is freakin free. Ubuntu does 95% of what the average user needs flawlessly, and 75% of what I need, right out of the box, and they'll mail me a pre-pressed dvd for free. I'd bet 2006 is the year that linux makes some big ground on the desktop, and you'll see both MSFT and APPL making some moves to try and court userbase like mad to keep marketshare. Windows flat doesn't meet my needs right now in any area other than compatability, for me personally I'd be the switch will be consumated before 2006 comes to a close.
Hey, maybe OSX will go opensource! Now that'd be an OS I'd pay for. :)
11:03 PM
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