techworld.com — Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current, monolithic form, according to Gartner. Microsoft will be forced to migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together through hardware-supported virtualisation. Gartner expects a significant update to Vista in late 2008 or 2009 that will add virtualisation.
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brd6644Aug 25, 2006
Marked as inaccurate. Pure speculation by Gartner.Virtualization is awesome for servers or if you're a tester/developer that needs to setup and teardown environments quickly. But the common home or business user... what benefit will virtualization bring for Windows? And please don't say browser security. If I need to launch an entire separate VM/OS in order to surf the web then Microsoft needs to look at the source code for SELinux and learn how to design an OS that's actually secure. Noobs.
dextrozAug 25, 2006
With writely, spreadsheets, calendaring, 'unlimited' e-mail space google is right now a step ahead in that direction. in fact the only reason you will need a computer is to run google desktop so that you can 'consolidate' all that information through one 'search portal'.
animalpsychicAug 25, 2006
For $20k Gartner will predict that monkeys will fly out of your butt on Christmas.
starmanjonesAug 26, 2006
i'm thinking the future personal computing... as in not google and caring my personal stuff will be a really big thumb drive. whether its a mac or windows vapor... i mean virtual... or linux or more likely some thing we haven't seen yet. it will just plug into a generic peice of hardward.
braininajarAug 26, 2006
"Doesn't Parallel's Desktop already do that?" Why paralells? why didn't you just say "VMWare", because vmware was first by a decade, and paralells just came out of nowhere when macs came to x86
miguel077Aug 26, 2006
Is this one of those apple tv ads?
fuckthepoliceAug 26, 2006
its 2006 now and i do not use any microtoss nonsense anymore.. virtual or otherwise!
esuomynonaAug 26, 2006
Those who dugg down my Novell/iSeries comment obviously don't understand what virtualization is in this case.
talledega500Aug 28, 2006
Do the guys at Gartner even know how virtualization works? Or how OSes work?This was pretty starry eyed and I wont believe it until I see a Star Trek rerun that predicted it.
divatriApr 26, 2007
Really good. Hard to beleive.