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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I think the very reason Micrsoft can be cought off-guard is that they're involved in so many ventures. The company is simply spread too thinly, without the ability to focus.
That would be true if Microsof had a monolythic business model, however, Microsoft has a model similar to IBM where each part is like a mini-business and those parts work with others in so-called "alliances".
What the concern should more likely be is whether the other parts of the organisation are up to speed in regards to what they will be do once Longhorn is released.
I've heard little about the next version of Office. Is it eventually going to go fully .NET so then we no longer have the security issues? Also, Microsoft, with such a long release cycle is really going to set the market up for a real let down if they don't release some majorly revolutionary.
Old Bill Gates has done the hype-tour but really, do people, deep down in their heart, think that suddenly Microsoft is going to sacrifice backwards compatibility for security and stability? do people really think that they're going to give Windows the major over haul required? I mean, they're going to have a release space of 4 YEARS! why not go too all the software vendors and pay for all software to be ported to .NET? they had 4 years to get software vendors on board. Had they done that then they could drop win32/win16/os2 and every other half-baked, backwards compatiblity API that plagues Windows.