Where Are Operating Systems Headed?

[HardOCP News]

Information Week’s latest article asks “Where Are Operating Systems Headed?.” The article looks beyond Windows Vista, Linux and wonders out loud whether operating systems are becoming irrelevant. Good reading.

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.

 

[ICOM]

Ever read the play "Death of a Salesman"? For the folks that inexplicably find pleasure in fiddling with operating systems...Woe are the Willy Loman's of the world.

Casting...