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[News] Professor of O/Ses Foresses No Place for Another Linux Challenger

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. 
| 
| [..]
| 
| 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. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| "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
http://tinyurl.com/2jhgkl


Related and recent:

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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