Does which OS question really matter?... no really? All operating systems on the market today are sort of ok. None are great. In order for it to be great it needs to be completely re-written. The old code needs to be dumped along with the support for legacy applications... and this is the biggest challenge. We need those old programs to run. ...and this is sort of like a catch 22. Another challenge is the hardware that is becoming a bloatware of its own. The x86 configuration must be abandoned. It has so many bottlenecks in it's age old architecture that it makes it no longer possible to have substantial improvements and further (noticable) development in this direction are going to be very difficult, expensive and obsolete. Further develpment in OS most likely is goint to stem out of the embeded os(s) camps carried by the phones, mp3 players and other gadgets like Nokia's internet tablet. It is only logical to expect it to come from the direction where the ground has not been set in stone yet. It is time to move on... it is a wonderful time!
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Does which OS question really matter?... no really?
All operating systems on the market today are sort of ok.
None are great.
In order for it to be great it needs to be completely re-written.
The old code needs to be dumped along with the support for legacy applications... and this is the biggest challenge. We need those old programs to run. ...and this is sort of like a catch 22.
Another challenge is the hardware that is becoming a bloatware of its own. The x86 configuration must be abandoned. It has so many bottlenecks in it's age old architecture that it makes it no longer possible to have substantial improvements and further (noticable) development in this direction are going to be very difficult, expensive and obsolete.
Further develpment in OS most likely is goint to stem out of the embeded os(s) camps carried by the phones, mp3 players and other gadgets like Nokia's internet tablet. It is only logical to expect it to come from the direction where the ground has not been set in stone yet. It is time to move on... it is a wonderful time!