This week some former IBM employees (most notably those who worked at the long lamented Lotus Development Corporation prior to IBM's acquisition) started receiving letters warning them that their personal data might have been compromised. This is in response to the loss of several tapes containing records of former employees earlier this year.
I'm pretty confident that they have no idea what they are talking about. In this article they make it sound like in the next 10 years that OSes will be a beautiful utopia. Yeah right, when hell freezes over. The reason for this, is because all OSes (Windows, UNIX, etc.) are pretty much warzones. You got piracy, reverse engineering, floods, malicious attacks, viruses, data damage, corruption, and so on. Sounds like real life, huh? And this "let's trust our software" is not the solution. Because the last thing we need is for software (artificial) intelligence to take over human (real) intelligence.
And I'll like to add on how stupid does a "'collaborative relationship' between an application and the OS" sounds. The last thing we need is for the application to be tied around with the OS. An example is when Internet Explorer 4.0+ crashes, it takes down Windows (maybe not 100%, but sometimes 100%) as well. It's pretty funny that MS couldn't tell the difference between the application and the operating system.
In a closing sentence, I think the article should've been: "10 Years Later: Microsoft, where are they now?"
Beware the new TTY code!
