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Subject: Re: What will be the position of Windows in 3, 4 years in the future?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:17:04 11/29/99

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On November 29, 1999 at 18:55:52, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>What will the position of Windows in three or four years from now?
Nobody knows.  Prognosticators are not very good at it.  I once went to a
meeting where Microsoft officials said that "OS/2 is the wave of the future --
all your design efforts should be bent in that direction."

They could still be right, of course.

>Will the
>recent High Court ruling against Microsoft influence this system?
Not much, if any.  Mostly cheap, functional apps for that OS will drive sales.

>And how much
>you expect that Linux will become prominent for the chess games?
It will probably pick up steam.  Eventually I expect that developers will
discover that the Linux crowd is not very willing to spend money, though.  Or
maybe all the transactions will be disguised as "service" just like Linux
itself.  In any case, I think it is a good mix, as Linux and Chess are both
appealing to cerebral types.



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