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I thought a different major OS would supplant Windows. It kind-of came true with more Android devices in use than Windows; but by now I thought Windows would be
by gwbas1c 5y ago
I thought a different major OS would supplant Windows. It kind-of came true with more Android devices in use than Windows; but by now I thought Windows would be a minority player and we'd have a bigger variety of different desktop OSes.
I also thought IDEs would be in 3D, with better visualizations of code running in parallel.
And, I didn't expect web applications to be the norm for most people. I thought we'd have a better "standard" cross-platform application development approach.
One thing that doesn't surprise me are application stores. After seeing how 90s applications used to take over your computer and wedge themselves everywhere, I expected that OS vendors would lock things down a bit more tightly.
- ghaff 5y ago>And, I didn't expect web applications to be the norm for most people. Which is at least one reason why Windows kept its crown. By the time there were real alternatives (increased popularity of Macs--albeit mostly higher end of the price range--and Linux as a fairly viable option), the desktop OS just wasn't very interesting for a lot of people. And Chromebooks were a reasonable alternative for many, especially in K-12. For those who did still need a "fat client," Windows just tended to win by default.