BIOS will be extinct as soon as Vista arrives.
 

I dissagree about the open networked desktop. For Windows users... seruriety is paramount and using a Thin-Client "like" desktop model is not the way to go.. Because of the Internet be so unreliable it is not a good idea. Microsoft tried it with MSN v1 ( I was a charter member)

The part about bio-metrics logon is going to happen. I use gmail. I do most of my applications via networked applications.

 

I agree to a point.
 

On 3/21/06, Adam Kennedy <adam@phase-n.com> wrote:

Ibrahim Damlaj wrote:
> Good point. However,
> I think that the reason that executables are going to be extinct is
> because computers are getting faster and faster.

I'll note we've however now reached a threshold in speed. Last year
average clock speed went DOWN for the first time ever.

So many of the high yield avenues for pure straight line single threaded
speed have been exhausted. You'll notice that there is a focus on
parallelism and power usage at the moment.

While computers will continue to do more things at once, I think that we
won't be seeing huge advancements in pure speed any more, just
incremental improvements and big increases in parallelism.

That's not to say there won't be any, just that they will be much slower
and incremental.

Adam K
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