MySpace for the Sandlot Set

conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on social networking sites for kids." From the article: "Parents are paying more heed to the kiddie sites because they know their children will learn, work, and live online. Computer skills such as social networking are becoming as much a part of the success-in-life portfolio as addition and subtraction, says Herbert S. Lin, senior scientist at the National Research Council. Parents' support of these sites stems in part from the idea that it's better for their kids to get their online introductions in a controlled environment -- as many of these sites promise -- than venture into the cyberjungle alone."

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The M$ Future is Event Horizon.

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What if she wants to install Windows? As she gets older, any computer classes she takes will quite likely be using that OS.

She will have to do and pay for that by herself, but I doubt M$ will exist much less be the basis for any computer courses in ten years. If Vista does not kill M$, the ten years it's going to take to make Event Horizon will.

What's Event Horizon? Event Horizon is the code name for the next version of Windows. Vista is the view beyond the Windows and the Horizon is the view beyond the Vista. The OS will be so massive by that time that anything, even light, getting anywhere near will be sucked into the black hole core. Some theorize that all the information sucked up by M$ will explode back into existence in at some future time, but most acknowledge the regurgitated information will be of little use to it's original owners. I think that Vista core already has collapsed and has it's own Event Horizon which is now obscured by marketing noise and other hot gasses. We will have to observe it to be sure, but the trend is unmistakable and M$'s next project will indeed be a black hole.