Linked by John O'Sullivan on Fri 17th Oct 2003 17:48 UTC
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981. "64 bit is coming to desktops,there is no doubt about that, But apart from Photoshop, I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory, which is what you have to have in order to benefit from this technology." It seems to me that by the time it ships, Longhorn will need 4 gigs of RAM.
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Oh god I feel an anti-ms wave comming up-- grab your chances people, let it all out!
Okay, on to the sane people:
I don't think any major changes will happen soon-- at least, not any permanent changes. We might see some fluctuations in marketshare, especially when 64-bit reaches the desktop for real (whenever that may be). Some operating systems will be ready for this, and some won't. And, obviously, the ones that are will have a head start. But, if Windows is not one of them, they surely will recapture their lost marketshare soon after, they have enough financial resources to do so, whether with real innovations or with something else.
I find the alternative sector of the OS market way more interesting, with projects such as Zeta, OpenBeOS, SkyOS etc. making (huge amounts of) progress.