Future operating systems to remain as Windows and Linux
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| Gernot Heiser, professor of operating systems at UNSW has stated that Windows
| and Linux will remain as the future of desktop and server operating systems.
|
| [..]
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| In an interview at the recent Linux.conf.au in Melbourne, Heiser said "the
| operating systems of the future will be called Windows and Linux, no matter
| what they look like".
|
| "You can't really introduce new operating systems in the desktop and server
| space", he added.
|
| [...]
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| "In the embedded systems industry, a lot of the systems are still built with
| simple real-time executives that don't support any memory protection. The
| industry is reaching the point where they realise this technology has reached
| it's use-by date."
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Future-operating-systems-to-remain-as-Windows-and-Linux/0,339028227,339287939,00.htm
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Is Google Android the Next Windows?
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| On the flip side, Good Android (here’s a video demo) is a cross-platform
| software environment that multiple hardware vendors and service providers are
| expected to embrace. Although Android isn’t fully baked, Google is
| aggressively promoting the operating environment to third party developers.
| The idea is to get developers on board early, so that tons of Android
| applications are ready when Android-compatible devices finally debut.
|
| [...]
|
| Eventually, The VAR Guy suspects, Android devices will easily leapfrog
| iPhone’s market share. But that’s not a terrible thing for Apple. Although
| Apple nearly died on the desktop, Apple’s more recent innovations prove that
| you can thrive even when you hold less than 10 percent of a technology
| market.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/20/is-google-android-the-next-windows/
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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