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

Author: leonid

Date: 17:10:52 11/29/99

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On November 29, 1999 at 19:17:04, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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."

Your remembering of OS/2 is more that right. This is mainly thinking about the
OS/2 dismay that I am so hesitant about choice of system. Do we still have OS/2
in this World?

Start writing the complet game, that could take few years, and finish it for
system that is already not there is not big fun. But to be sincere, I dream that
Linux will become robust and omnipresent for all of us.

Leonid.

>
>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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