Gates on Spyware and OS Competition

Ant writes "CNET's News.com has an article that says Microsoft plans to offer its own anti-spyware software." prostoalex writes "Both OsNews and InfoWorld talk about Bill Gates' speech at the Computer History Museum in California. Gates is noting that Linux is taking over, and claims that 10 years forward Linux and Windows will be the only OSs left in the market."

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Nostradamus he ain't

[GomezAdams]

Why get your knickers in a knot over anything Gates says. His success rate with his other big predictions is lower than pecking chickens or a psychic mule calling presidential elections, forecasting hurricanes, and Super Bowl winners.

If he expects M$ Windows to be still be a viable choice in 10 years than he had best get his gang of coders to fixing all the security holes in M$ products. Otherwise within five years the script kiddies and spammers will totally own the M$ environment, enough major corporations will follow IBM and other IT shops in converting to the Linux desktop that ordinary users will start to clamor for preloaded Linux boxes so they can be compatible with their work environment. There will always be enough of us dedicated Contraians that UNIX(tm),the BDSs, and other alternatives will still be there "just because".

Another prediction (from the pecking chickens) is that in five years Longhorn will have so many delays that the features will be scaled back even more to get to market that someone at M$ marketing will name the next version of Windows(tm) "Shorthorn".