Originally posted by: movingincircles
What do you see 10 years from now. Most creative gets a cookie!
"Blue screens of death" will be no longer!
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MS will just change them to a shiny, silver look, to match their new UI at the time.
Originally posted by: movingincircles
In 10 years, we would develop a new kind of ram that is permanent (doesnt lose data when shuts off) and hotswappable. So we can get rid of hard drives, cd dvd roms, usb drives, floppies, zips, etc...then we could reuse the old mem as video memory on the slots of future video cards. No need for installation, loading, save points, etc... Or we could develop hard drives that are as fast as ram
We already have both of those things, except they cost much more than current mechanical-based HDs and current silicon-based RAM does, which is why we are still using HDs and RAM instead of something more esoteric.
You know what the honest truth is? Current operating systems ("user operating environments"), could be SO far advanced by now, if MS didn't try to completely control, dominate, and restrict the growth of the market. Look at what happened, during the early "browser wars", before giant slumbering MS even woke-up and noticed the "web-based internet phenomenon".
Look at how much *raw innovation* happened at that time! That period, more than anything else, actually helped define the phrase "internet time". And yet now look at what innovations have happened in that same field, now that MS has dominated it for years. After three years, IE
finally gets a pop-up blocker, that 3rd-parties have been providing as a feature for years. Whoopie.
Maybe in another three years, MS will "integrate" (steal - sorry, "innovate") tabbed-browsing as a feature.
If you want to know who has been holding back widespread consumer software-technology development, look no further than "evil Bill's ranch", out in Redmond, WA.
Also, the thing that so many Microsoft supporters fail to understand, is the "chilling" effects on true innovation that MS's heavy-handed and supra-legal business tactics have had. There are a number of people and companies, I'm sure, that have scrapped or otherwise not pursued development of innovative ideas in the marketplace, because they know that the 800lb gorilla is watching, and will eventually giev them two options: 1) sell out to MS, for a paltry sum, or 2) be run into the ground and go bankrupt, eventually, due to MS's seriously anti-competitive tactics.
(Edit: Google is perhaps the only one big enough, rich enough, and innovative enough, these days, to possibly pull it off. The calls for a "Google OS" echo that sentiment.)
And yet, MS puts on a "happy face" for the world, as if they are some sort of leading software "innovator", rather than a thief, charlatan, and imitator.
The only reason that they can't just outright kill Linux, is because of its licensing, and the fact that it is given away for free. MS is going to have to pay for some seriously-powerful laws, to severely restrict personal freedoms and rights, in order to quash it. Whether that happens or not, I cannot say, but in either case it doesn't bode well for the industry or the people.
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