dominant type of os 20 years from now...

[KlokWyze]

I think about this occasionally & just see the standard private minded architecture of today being completely hindering of people's needs. There is already a large awareness that microsoft & government agencies wish to see their software monitoring people rather than..... doing what they are suppose to do. I really look @ the majority market shares due to MS dominating the home PC market... but the average home pc user just uses internet or some random bullshit apps.

I see the prices MS charges for their OS dropping & dropping as free OS alternatives keep improving their architecture. It's funny though.... windows vista is bullshit. 90% of pc users just want to surf the net & transfer their camera pics to their HDD. Who needs anything beyond windows xp..... much less Ubuntu Dapper Drake?

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: KlokWyze
I think about this occasionally & just see the standard private minded architecture of today being completely hindering of people's needs. There is already a large awareness that microsoft & government agencies wish to see their software monitoring people rather than..... doing what they are suppose to do. I really look @ the majority market shares due to MS dominating the home PC market... but the average home pc user just uses internet or some random bullshit apps.

I see the prices MS charges for their OS dropping & dropping as free OS alternatives keep improving their architecture. It's funny though.... windows vista is bullshit. 90% of pc users just want to surf the net & transfer their camera pics to their HDD. Who needs anything beyond windows xp..... much less Ubuntu Dapper Drake?

There's so many things not true or even hard to prove in your post...

Its opinion...To be fair, if it wasn't for MS I'm not sure if we would be as far as we are today.

Apple are just too tight and anal for my liking.

 

[corkyg]

20 years from now you may not even need a separate OS. Technology advances in that span of time could be legion and result in the OS being embedded in the the CPU chip - and that might simply react to thought waves and brain farts.

 

[QuixoticOne]

20 years?!

Something is like SERIOUSLY wrong if computers aren't INTELLIGENT
at least like maybe a 7th grade elementary school level in most areas of 'intelligence'
, and probably more like PhD level in terms of narrow fields of expertise that are
well suited to computers.

I'd expect to be able to carry on a spoken or written conversation with them in
most major languages, and for most of the functions of
"computer management" to be automated / transparent by then.

I doubt they'll have developed senses of art, humor, et. al. but otherwise using one
will be more like interacting with a librarian or secretary / research assistant
than a PC.

Digital photos? Eh.. yeah Vista sucks in many ways, so does XP. They really
both fail at data management when you start to look at keeping LOTS of
photos / documents / videos / music / etc. No decent backup, no decent
data protection against crashes / corruption, file copy is basically super primitive,
it's easy to accidentally delete / lose your data, no way to ORGANIZE the files well,
etc. Vista doesn't help much over XP, but both have a long way to go before
they're as good as LINUX / MAC, and really those are pretty bad still too.
Imagine keeping every photo / note / email / video you / your household has
EVER taken / received and then trying to search / organize / backup that, probably
like 100,000 or more files after a few years. Totally infeasible with Windows really.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: QuixoticOne
20 years?!

Something is like SERIOUSLY wrong if computers aren't INTELLIGENT
at least like maybe a 7th grade elementary school level in most areas of 'intelligence'
, and probably more like PhD level in terms of narrow fields of expertise that are
well suited to computers.

I'd expect to be able to carry on a spoken or written conversation with them in
most major languages, and for most of the functions of
"computer management" to be automated / transparent by then.

I doubt they'll have developed senses of art, humor, et. al. but otherwise using one
will be more like interacting with a librarian or secretary / research assistant
than a PC.

Digital photos? Eh.. yeah Vista sucks in many ways, so does XP. They really
both fail at data management when you start to look at keeping LOTS of
photos / documents / videos / music / etc. No decent backup, no decent
data protection against crashes / corruption, file copy is basically super primitive,
it's easy to accidentally delete / lose your data, no way to ORGANIZE the files well,
etc. Vista doesn't help much over XP, but both have a long way to go before
they're as good as LINUX / MAC, and really those are pretty bad still too.
Imagine keeping every photo / note / email / video you / your household has
EVER taken / received and then trying to search / organize / backup that, probably
like 100,000 or more files after a few years. Totally infeasible with Windows really.

Wow. Im boggled at the multimedia organization and backup comments. Im not sure of a more untrue statement ...but anyway thats OT.

Seeing how our our current windows based (I dont mean MS Windows, I mean...not text only) was introduced by Apple in 1984, and where we are today...I dont think theres any way to predict. But, if I were to guess....portable PC's...like prototypes out where the keyboard is projected onto a flat surface...add to that a virtual screen that can illuminate anywhere all stored on a smart card the size of an SD mini...maybe in a watch or portable phone. I think something like that will be the norm. It's easy to say 20 years technology will be so advanced, but then I remember back in middle school we thought we'd have flying cars by now hehe.

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Wow. Im boggled at the multimedia organization and backup comments. Im not sure of a more untrue statement ...but anyway thats OT.

Seeing how our our current windows based (I dont mean MS Windows, I mean...not text only) was introduced by Apple in 1984, and where we are today...I dont think theres any way to predict. But, if I were to guess....portable PC's...like prototypes out where the keyboard is projected onto a flat surface...add to that a virtual screen that can illuminate anywhere all stored on a smart card the size of an SD mini...maybe in a watch or portable phone. I think something like that will be the norm. It's easy to say 20 years technology will be so advanced, but then I remember back in middle school we thought we'd have flying cars by now hehe.

Well, Xerox PARC in 73, Apple just had the first commercially successful venture, which Microsoft later took and blew right out of the ballpark. 🙂

As for the original question I'm not sure we could easily envisage such a future accurately yet. I'm sure there will be lots more interoperability between devices, intelligent devices which work without human input necessary etc, how we fit in will be an interesting discovery. Technology is certainly exciting for the future. I'm just a little impatient for certain ones to come to fruition. 🙂

 

[Markbnj]

Well, I've got almost 50 years under my belt, 25 of them in programming and general wasting of time with computers, and here's my view: a) the twenty years will go by a lot faster than you think; and b) the world won't be as different as you think, but there will be lots of small changes you would never have predicted.

 

[jhu]

good luck predicting computing for the next 20 years. we'll probably have quantum computing by then and have already hit the physical limits of lithography processes.

 

[Maximilian]

It will be called Windows Alive instead of Windows live, and it will probably be the cause of WWIII by trying to wipe out humans, but humans will win by attempting to run crysis on its super future hardware bringing the OS and its cpu to its knees and allowing humans to win.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Wow. Im boggled at the multimedia organization and backup comments. Im not sure of a more untrue statement ...but anyway thats OT.

Seeing how our our current windows based (I dont mean MS Windows, I mean...not text only) was introduced by Apple in 1984, and where we are today...I dont think theres any way to predict. But, if I were to guess....portable PC's...like prototypes out where the keyboard is projected onto a flat surface...add to that a virtual screen that can illuminate anywhere all stored on a smart card the size of an SD mini...maybe in a watch or portable phone. I think something like that will be the norm. It's easy to say 20 years technology will be so advanced, but then I remember back in middle school we thought we'd have flying cars by now hehe.

Well, Xerox PARC in 73, Apple just had the first commercially successful venture, which Microsoft later took and blew right out of the ballpark. 🙂

As for the original question I'm not sure we could easily envisage such a future accurately yet. I'm sure there will be lots more interoperability between devices, intelligent devices which work without human input necessary etc, how we fit in will be an interesting discovery. Technology is certainly exciting for the future. I'm just a little impatient for certain ones to come to fruition. 🙂

Oh hell forgot about PARC heh