Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th Feb 2007 18:41 UTC, submitted by maverick
"Lines that once seemed clear are being smudged. Perhaps we delude ourselves to think that we once knew the difference between a 'big' operating system and a 'little' one, but today the biggest operating system ever written runs on desktop personal computers, not mainframes, and desktop operating systems are migrating to telephones and other consumer devices, while there is a trend for the "little" operating systems developed specifically for those devices to take on many of the capabilities of desktop operating systems as those devices themselves become more like computers. And, as further evidence that the apocalypse is upon us, you can, with Apple's blessing, run Windows Vista natively on your Macintosh. What are operating systems coming to?"
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2007-01-18
Well, if you think about it Windows only really comes in one flavor. Take Vista for example. The underlying code is basically the same. The only difference is Microsoft decides what you get and how much you pay for it.
However, if I was to really guess were the OS is heading I would say to big bad bloat land.