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> Nobody cares about computers anymore (thanks smartphones, tablets!), and so Windows will go down the drain eventually Not holding my breath for that.
by return0 11y ago
> Nobody cares about computers anymore (thanks smartphones, tablets!), and so Windows will go down the drain eventually
Not holding my breath for that.
- paulddraper 11y agoWait....are you telling me that used a computer today? And the day before that? And the day before... Ah, you're probably behind the times and not very techy anyway.
- iopq 11y agoI'm using a computer right now. I use a cellphone when I'm out, and use a tablet in bed/on the couch. I use a laptop when not home. I use my computer to stream games on TwitchTV. I also run a Linux VM on my personal computer to run caffe for neural net things. Let's see your tablet do that...
- Killswitch 11y agoTablets are computers.
- simonh 11y agoComputer + X = Computer Computer + teletype = Computer Computer + VDU = Computer Computer + Mouse = Computer Computer + Ethernet = Computer Computer + Phone = Computer Computer platforms devour the peripherals mated to them. BTW The Limbo PC emulator on Android is capable of running a minimal Linux distro and there are MS DOS emulators for iOS. It's just a matter of time.
- pjc50 11y agoBRB, installing vmware on my Win8 tablet.
- iopq 11y agoIt still won't run caffe because you don't have a powerful GPU to train neural nets on
- derefr 11y agoAgree, but with a disclaimer: I have a feeling the biggest part of Windows' marketshare 20 years from now will be Windows Server Core instances (running on Azure and elsewhere), with "Windows as PC software" no longer contributing much-at-all to the bottom line, and possibly made entirely free. Business workstations (everything currently running Windows Enterprise) will run something-or-other-that-doesn't-matter that can run Microsoft Remote Desktop, and apps will mostly be delivered via RemoteApp connections to said Windows Server Core clusters. Microsoft is becoming a cloud company, and enterprises are finally starting to accept thin clients (because now thin clients are actually kind of fat, and thus much less annoying to use.) Windows-on-the-desktop will basically be in a race against ChromeOS, which is fundamentally a thin-client OS as well. (Meanwhile, OSX will probably... continue to just be OSX. Unless Apple has some big new shift in vision, they're nowhere near being a cloud company, and OSX is nowhere near being a thin-client OS.)
- capitalsigma 11y agoApple is a hardware company, too.
- ferrari8608 11y agoThey kind of have to be. They forbid using their OSes on non-Apple hardware.
- capitalsigma 11y agoDesktop use is shrinking compared to alternatives --- especially mobile. In developing countries, many people use smartphones as their only form of access to the internet. People aren't saying that desktops etc are going to disappear, but that the cash cow in the next decade is probably going to have a much smaller form factor and a different OS from your traditional desktop.
- johnmaguire2013 11y agoThis is exactly what I was trying to say, thank you.