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From Gates's email: > I am literally losing sleep over this issue since together with a move to more server based applications it seems like it could make it
by lern_too_spel 5y ago
From Gates's email:
> I am literally losing sleep over this issue since together with a move to more server based applications it seems like it could make it easy for people to do competitive operating systems.
Gates was talking about server applications, and he was right. Within 10 years, people were using Gmail instead of Outlook and Google Docs instead of Word. Both are written in Java on servers not running Windows, exactly as Gates feared.
- warner25 5y agoI mean it's also a lot of client-side JavaScript, but yeah, I thought this line was the most prescient. As I've moved back and forth between Windows and Linux over the past 15 years, I've found it increasingly easy to do everything on Linux, and that's mostly because more and more of what I do is just in the browser. At this point, it's Linux on my personal laptop with a Windows virtual machine for only two or three Windows-only desktop applications that I still occasionally require. As long as Firefox and Chrome are cross-platform, the OS matters less and less.