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Originally Posted by krykos
In 5-10 years, Microsoft are likely to retire Windows anyway. Windows still relies on its operating system using the hardware within the computer to allow it to do tasks, whilst the trend nowadays is to move towards virtualisation (i.e. using computer program instructions to do this job). After Vista, there'll probably be one more version of Windows before Midori (the successor) is brought out.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft sees end of Windows era |
I can't see the whole virutalization thing taking off, at least within the home market. Portability isn't our problem - performance is. Virtualization can be extremely fast (I won't bore you with the details of my own nerd research, unless you
really want me to), overall, it's just not as hot as code being run directly on the hardware. Latencies especially are an area that suffer, and that's killer stuff for us musicians and general-purpose home users.
And Windows7, that won't be much cop from what I can tell. It's not going to be a new OS - it's based on Vista in the same way that Windows 98 was based on Windows 95. It's going to be better in most areas, but performance won't improve massively, if at all. So it'll still be pish compared to XP.