Re: My predictions for 2004-2005

From: Oliver Townshend (oliver_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 07:06:24 +1000

> > MS will release a version that can run on a 64 bit machine that is
> > compatible with Intel 32-IA chips and AMD/64 bits. They won't waste
their
> > time with multiple machines.
>
> Sorry, you're dead wrong here. You can already download
> the 64-bit beta version of WinXP/AMD on Microsoft's
> site.

Yes, but if Intel produce the chips they are going to make, won't that mean
that the same version of WinXP will work on it? So MS will only be
targetting one CPU.

> Porting MSOffice to .NET just for the sake of .NET makes little
> sense. Too many existing applications depend on the COM
> interfaces in Office.

Porting to .Net because Bill tells you too is a slightly different issue.

> OTOH, porting MSoffice to the 64-bit world shouldn't be too
> difficult, the API's are almost identical. MS has plenty
> of experience with that process (even Windows 2000 exists
> in a 64-bit variety).

Why? Where does this take Office? What can 64 bit Office do that 32 bit
can't? Handle pictures better?

> .Net may be a great innovation in the eyes of developers,
> but it has *zero* sex appeal to the average computing
> person. Yet Another Kludge from Microsoft. Every "innovation"
> from Microsoft so far only made the operating system bigger,
> slower and bulkier.

Well with CPUs double in power every year and half and doubling in bits
every decade, they are just making sure that the CPU doesn't feel lonely.

Oliver Townshend

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