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It could be the future. Technology especially computer science has a way of working out in a manner consistent with visionary fiction. Just look at any old Star Trek, most of the fantasy tech during that time is now a reality.
With no vision there will be no change.
Unbelieve!
Grey, oppressive offices instead of telepresence… Air travel instead of videoconferencing… Boring, inproductive meetings with souped up white boards…
Yup, the future alright.
Where are the flying cars?
It’s the 21st century.
I was promised flying cars.
I think it’s great. Unfortunately they’ll probably resurrect Clippy and have him follow you around as a virtual annoyance.
Looks impressive. It’s not going to replace the basics. There’s a little issue of reliability in the real world that takes precedence over neeto special effects.
Lou
LOL I hated that little, annoying bastard! 🙂
2019? Well, the way our money & economy is going, I see more of a yurt thing for the “business” meetings…
2001: XP, 2010: Windows 7, 2019: this ? I don’t think so. Not from Microsoft.
This reminds me of all those AT&T ads from the 90’s show me the great things that would be happening with communication right now. Instead Southwestern Bell reassembled AT&T and I had to fight with SBC for six months before they would send me their bill electronically and not on paper each month.
Bill is gone from Microsoft and the rest of the first generation will be in a few years. When has a large company gotten more innovative when their founders have left? The future of Microsoft is investing money in other huge companies, and blocking anybody else from getting a foothold the computer space. The only innovation in the last five years has come out of Apple and now Steve is gone and maybe he will be back, maybe not.
I am typing this on a Vista box, because Apple cost too damn much, but Apple are the innovators right now and Microsoft is still making cheaper knockoffs. God I wish there was great economy and a innovative Microsoft. Instead everything looks grim.
Some of what we see *might* happen. Too much emphasis on point and click. Maybe for reading the newspaper but engineering will not be point and click, especially software.
… and Microsoft has done so well with it visions of the the future past, right?
Where was Seinfeld and Gates?
One of my favorite songs is “It’s the 80’s (so where’s my rocket pack?)”
eh, eh?
And where’s Seinfeld and Gates?
OMG! RFID and BSODs all around!
The hardware for that stuff will certainly be available, but I can’t believe everything will integrate so smoothly.
Remember those office teleconferencing vids from the 90s? Well, we have that stuff, but it’s a pain in the ass to setup and use.
With the current economic situation, here is my future:
Billy: Tell us more grandpa!
Me: Well, Billy, we used to have thing thing called the internet. You could type in a word and it would tell you everything there is to know about the word.
Billy: wow!
Me: And we things called “cell phones”. You could be anywhere on Earth and talk to anyone else on Earth – whenever you wanted to!
Billy: double wow!
Oh please. You’re telling me the future will have to be rebooted every three hours, right? The Microsoft architecture is permanently screwed, and there’s no time to start again — they have no future. I might half-believe this vision if it came from Apple, but coming from Microsoft, it’s just laughable. Most thinking people in Silicon Valley already embrace the proposition that Microsoft is already dead. Zombie banks? Zombie OS. Unsustainable. Too big to fail? Looking less and less so.
I think Microsoft has lost it’s genetic code to do things like this. They have lots of very bright people, and the ideas in this video show that. To create any part of that vision would require many, many small incremental steps with a goal in mind.
Unfortunately they’ve locked themselves into a gargantuan release strategy where they are aggregating more and more pieces together. The next version of Office will have 31 applications and require large numbers of online and offline resources. Tightly coupling all your products together with huge interdependencies will slow them to a crawl.
.NET was smart, even brilliant at times, but is falling prey to the same problems. Windows Mobile got a good jump but now V7 is delayed until at least next year since the current handsets aren’t powerful enough to run it. Windows 7 will get their OS back on track but they had to draw down their best people from other divisions to get this done. There are some exceptional world class leaders at Microsoft like Steven Sinofsky and Scott Guthrie but they are few and far between.
Cool vision. No ability to get there.
A bit over 50 years ago, I was leafing through an old encyclopedia in the (Elementary) School library, and happened on an article quoting Igor Sikorsky that strongly suggested that we’d all be flying helicopters by 1956.
As soon as I got home that night, I asked dad what color ours would be…. After all, it was 1955, and we had to get ready!
(Turned out that the article was from the 1930’s….)
Same thing here, I expect, although much of that is possible, as are the frequent BSOD’s….
So, do you want to be treated by a surgical robot using Vista? 🙁
Regards
I didn’t see any penguins. Ten years from now penguins will be everywhere.
Penguins definitely will rule if MS keeps their price and licensing policies. I am currently looking for a job, and I see more job postings asking for Linux expertise than MS Win on at least a 3 to 1 ratio. Unfortunate for me, poor MS guy :\
#22. Go penguins!
The grocery store, where I shop, has been profiling my shopping habits for ten years and should be able by now to remind me, that I buy eggs and milk on Wednesdays, I must be running low, and they are running a special on low-fat homogenized in isle 13. Or better still, offer individuals prices customized to their profile and customer loyalty.
Q:”Is This Microsoft’s (and our) Future in 2019?”
A: With our luck, yes.
It’s a crying shame that S.C. Johnson (makers of Windex®) don’t have stock offerings. Stockholders would make a killing with Windex sales going through the roof cleaning off all those greasy, smeared, grungy touch screens. Yecch!
Microsoft is dead in 2019.
MS won’t be dead in 2019, but it will be taking its first steps towards being a consultancy business…
Sheesh, looks like the mac and linux fanbots are out in force today. Like it or not, it was MS, not apple or linux that have gotten personal computers to where they are today.
Microsoft is in business to further their profits by creating ecosystems by which smaller companies can create their own systems on top of, like a whale with millions of tiny barnacles attached to it.
Apple is only in business for the betterment of Apple, and like a petulant child, they want as much control over everything as possible.
Microsoft tries to co-opt everyone in (yes, I’m aware of their past… they haven’t always been friendly about it), while Apple locks customers in and third parties out.
Answer: absolutely not.
What we know about the trends of technology is that it does not revolve around new physical apparatuses.
Desktop
Portable desktop
Laptop
PDA
Integrated Phone/PDA (Blackberry, iPhone)
Next: Headset computer
After that: Sunglasses/visor computer
Possibly: Watch-based computer
The winning trends in technology have always oriented around greater portability and particularly integrating with something small that you will have with you anyway.
Computers are the future they have replaced every other electronic device in my home. Mine runs my TV, music and phone as we speak. In the last ten years I have slowly eliminated home phone, cable and a huge stereo system. I get better sound all floors then I had before, free calls to my daughter in China and more movies and TV shows then a human has time to watch. With Vista I got free hand writing software so my pen tablet is now replacing my pen and paper. Strangely I have still been buying books. Although I have a PDF library that would rival most towns. They are real handy when the power goes out.