Microsoft is trying to put a new spin on the old shit so the messes will pay for it again. It has been working for them so far. Vista has become an obvious backstep like Windows ME, but other than that things have been rolling along for them.
The concepts here are nothing new. Reduce the users machine to a teminal and pay them for access to the hosted computers doing the real work. That is a return to the 1960's. But people will buy into this.
Now the web was truly something new. It took a while to get there. First some web pages showed up and the white books of webaddresses sold for as much as $60. They where like phone books for the web. But yea back then search was primitive to hopeless and webaddresses where covented like fine wine. Google changed all that and made the web this huge searchable thing, and wiki made condensed versions of that viawable on one page. Both are huge assests to daily life.
But what next...making somoenes personal data centralized and even anonomously searchable..is NOT it. The thing with what google did is they only give public search results for public webpages. You don't want people using google to search your data don't post it on the web. But something in mydocuments...being searchable by whom...big brother maybe.
No microsoft has huge engineering resources. They need to turn them towards things like virtual reality, and other fields where there remains real work to be done. And that is not just buy someones stuff or reverse engineer it and give it away until the real intovator gives up. I am talking hard research...where the solutions are not buyable because nobody has them. Only downside it is might mean mcirosoft takes a 5 to 10 year slump in earnings while windows goes flat on sales and research becomes the focus....well, wait they will never do that...too much risk too little gain.
Well, I did not own it. It was Sept 1980 and this computer which used magnetic core memory and octal coding was used to teach beginning computer programming concepts of machine language programming. teletypes was used for input/output. The control panel could also be used, and for the first program it was. Paper tape was used for long term program storage using a baudit 5 bit code. Synificant programs using this interface was like integer multiple and divide.
I have been on a number if historical sites but I never hear of this computer.
First computer owned was in May 1982 and it was a ZX81, later upgraded with 16k memory pack from Sinclair and a 32k memory pack from memtech. I also had a high-res graphics pack from memtech. It was like 512x200. But it required a upgraded power supply. You had to have at least a 1 amp power supply. The stock unit was like 750Ma. I had to wire that up myself and I got the wiring wrong and shot 110 A/C into the sinclair box. It did not last long at all. There was a pop some smoke and that was over.
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Microsoft is trying to put a new spin on the old shit so the messes will pay for it again. It has been working for them so far. Vista has become an obvious backstep like Windows ME, but other than that things have been rolling along for them. The concepts here are nothing new. Reduce the users machine to a teminal and pay them for access to the hosted computers doing the real work. That is a return to the 1960's. But people will buy into this. Now the web was truly something new. It took a while to get there. First some web pages showed up and the white books of webaddresses sold for as much as $60. They where like phone books for the web. But yea back then search was primitive to hopeless and webaddresses where covented like fine wine. Google changed all that and made the web this huge searchable thing, and wiki made condensed versions of that viawable on one page. Both are huge assests to daily life. But what next...making somoenes personal data centralized and even anonomously searchable..is NOT it. The thing with what google did is they only give public search results for public webpages. You don't want people using google to search your data don't post it on the web. But something in mydocuments...being searchable by whom...big brother maybe. No microsoft has huge engineering resources. They need to turn them towards things like virtual reality, and other fields where there remains real work to be done. And that is not just buy someones stuff or reverse engineer it and give it away until the real intovator gives up. I am talking hard research...where the solutions are not buyable because nobody has them. Only downside it is might mean mcirosoft takes a 5 to 10 year slump in earnings while windows goes flat on sales and research becomes the focus....well, wait they will never do that...too much risk too little gain.
Well, I did not own it. It was Sept 1980 and this computer which used magnetic core memory and octal coding was used to teach beginning computer programming concepts of machine language programming. teletypes was used for input/output. The control panel could also be used, and for the first program it was. Paper tape was used for long term program storage using a baudit 5 bit code. Synificant programs using this interface was like integer multiple and divide.
I have been on a number if historical sites but I never hear of this computer.
First computer owned was in May 1982 and it was a ZX81, later upgraded with 16k memory pack from Sinclair and a 32k memory pack from memtech. I also had a high-res graphics pack from memtech. It was like 512x200. But it required a upgraded power supply. You had to have at least a 1 amp power supply. The stock unit was like 750Ma. I had to wire that up myself and I got the wiring wrong and shot 110 A/C into the sinclair box. It did not last long at all. There was a pop some smoke and that was over.