It's funny.
This new OS will be entirely proprietary, yet everything in it will be called a standard, because microsoft makes it, and they can push it to the masses.
Everything else will then be seen as incompatible, and will become obsolete, because microsoft will put strict rights on their standards, making it next to impossible for others to adopt them.
Small, innovative startup companies will go out of business, and microsoft will grow.
Thousands of bugs will be found in the first week of its release.
There will be about 10 security patches in the first month of its release.
People will be forced to buy new computers to keep up with the OS.
People will loose entire hard drives due to installation errors.
And while all this is happening, Apple will keep on doing what they do. Innovate.
Apple will still be releasing small updates to their OS. The dual/quad 970's (and beyond) will be the powerhouses of personal computers...
And people will praise microsoft for putting out such a wonderful operating system, and shun Apple for doing what they've been doing the whole time: updating their OS little by little and continuing to innovate the computer industry one thing at a time.
We can only hope for a fatal flaw in microsoft's plans, like a bug that destroys hard drives, a security code that keeps you from keeping downloaded music, and your own legally obtained music on your computer, or the complete lack of HTML, HTTP, FTP, mp3, mpeg4, and every other standard out there that microsoft doesn't make.
We really need to do something soon. Microsoft continues to kill innovation by pushing their proprietary crap on users, instead of letting open source and other standards and applications compete fairly. If something's not done, we won't be able to browse the web without using a microsoft browser that really has no future plans for updates, just because people program their websites to work with microsoft only browsers. We'll all have to switch to .wmv file formats for our media, because nobody else will support mpeg, or even real player. We will be forced to use CRAP because microsoft decides that their $#!t is better for everyone, and even though it'll start with windows, it will inevitably float over to the Mac side of things. microsoft will make some cheap apps for the mac just to get by, or maybe even just forget about us, and screw over every ounce of innovation in the computer world.
microsoft IS a monopoly, microsoft WILL take advantage of you, microsoft DOES NOT play fair. They play stupid, hoping that people won't notice what they're doing, and when people find out and take it to the courts, they lie and cheat their way out of it. microsoft is very deceiving, and will get you if you're not careful.
You may think that my post is a bunch of hatred towards microsoft, and a bunch of opinions and myths found online, but if you manage to see what has been left in the wake of microsoft (if you can see past the curtains that they have erected to keep people out of their past), you will see that microsoft doesn't want to help you or any other consumer, but themselves...
