Tech: The Microsoft vs Mac vs Unix wars are over.

Long live them all. Virtual hardware acceleration is about to take hold. It's a little know technology that's going to revolutionize the desktop as well as it already has the server. Forget about arguments pro or against one operating system or another, you can use them all at the same time if you want to now. And some companies like Microsoft may initially fight it because it virtually eliminates monopoly dominance but they will see the light since it actually guarantees more copies of their software sold. If it's useful, customers will buy it and use it alongside anything else that wish to; no more either-or.

Apple does windows! I really wish I had a truckload of money to invest in Apple and right now because they are going to triple their hardware sales in the next three to four years. For apple and their recent switch to Intel processors, future products will be able to run both OS X and Windows simultaneously. Sure people will be able to use OS X on generic PC hardware but apple only supports it's hardware which virtually guarantees that the average user that really wants Apple comparability and software will spend the extra money on Apple hardware. Apple will be just like a designer brand of hardware that users in companies will all covet. Since it also runs windows, no one will be fired for purchasing Apple (just like the old IBM saw).

I also envision the emergence of specialty operating systems designed especially for video games and media with DRM (digital rights madness) as well as elimination of the GUI from products like windows server. Window will obviously be the leading game platform but their is nothing to prevent another Game OS from emerging. In fact it more than likely given that Operating systems no longer have to be everything and do everything for everyone. Now Operating System can be application specific. For example a GameOS doesn't really face the same security concerns as say a file server or an Internet browser and email client.

Vista will probably be the last traditional version of windows that is developed. Windows Server can actually be slimmed down and become a console less VM application. You just connect to it over a virtual or actual network connection with management tools. If you really need a GUI you install windows workstation in another VM. Because of this I actually expect windows server to become much faster and competitive with Unix. As far as windows workstation I expect to see it spin itself off in multiple VM's and segregate applications according to security. You manage your data in one VM and surf and download files from the Internet in another. And Microsoft will no longer have to worry about perfect backward compatibility since users can run older operating systems simultaneously if they really need to; hence it's operating systems will get simpler and faster.

Another good investment now is in memory companies because each virtual machine requires it's own memory and with the average person running two or three operating systems that potentially would require three times the normal memory. There is going to be a short term shortage.

Could AMD be the next Sony?

I'm starting to wonder if companies don't buy into AMD's ideas if AMD couldn't become a retail brand of it's own. Specifically it's obviously in a position to create a game and entertainment platform of it's own. Same with music players, portable games systems, or even cell phones. They have all the talent to do it now.

Could AMD be the next Sony?

I'm starting to wonder if companies don't buy into AMD's ideas if AMD couldn't become a retail brand of it's own. Specifically it's obviously in a position to create a game and entertainment platform of it's own. Same with music players, portable games systems, or even cell phones. They have all the talent to do it now.