Here I follow-up on my last post about what our lives would be like without Windows. Initial reactions would be a world full of rainbows and butterflies, but everything might not be as great as you would expect.
Significant changes in developer tools: Here’s an area where I think Microsoft does good work. The amount of resources I have available to me to both use and learn Microsoft applications and developer more solutions on the Windows platform. Similar to the changes with client applications, there would be changes to developer expectations as well. This impact would probably be less those with the evolving standards of other development platforms and languages.
Hardware changes: This one I’m not so sure about. Although their is something to be said for knowing that if you develop hardware to work with a PC system, there’s at least a known economy of scale available. The article states there would need to be another major player that would arise to standardize hardware needs again. I’m not so sure that would be Apple by any means.
I’m sure there will be plenty of disagreement with this article because there were plenty of comments on the PC World article as well. I’m very eager to hear what our readers have to say and look forward to bouncing ideas off each other in the comments.
Blast away!
I’ve been reading an interesting article on the PC World website titled "What Would Life Be like Without Windows". I’ll admit, I’m a fan of Microsoft. Don’t jump to conclusions though, I think there are plenty of areas for them to work harder and deliver a better product to their users.
Of course there’s the initial knee-jerk reaction that life would be fantastic without this giant monolithic software elephant in the room. After all, everything they make is crap and they strong-arm competition and their business partners to do what they want. Right?
It’s not that easy, the article discusses these potential impacts to the industry around us and our everyday lives changing because of that change to the industry.
Unexpected results with client applications: Except for the fairly recent changes in the Office user interface, most Windows applications share a familiar if not very similar interface with other Windows applications. With the failure of Microsoft, people would need to start learning a much wider variety of user-interfaces.
Stay tuned and read my follow-up to this post with some more impacts of a world without Windows.
One of my absolute favorite television events is starting next month! It’s the winter Olympics and this year they’re in Vancouver, Canada. NBC is covering the games which is fine with me because I’ve always liked Bob Costas for sports commentary.
I think I may be looking forward to this years broadcast of the games more than ever because I’m going to be able to enjoy them on my AT&T U-verse television programming. U-verse has recently released what they call a multi-view option. It provides a multiple picture-in-picture effect onscreen as you can see from the small image above.
Initially they’ve offered it for other sports and kids programming, but now they’re making another multi-view channel available just for the Olympics.
There’s so much coverage of the events it’s hard to keep up with what’s going on when sometimes, so I’m super excited about being able to see the Multi-view features with this content.
I can see what’s happening on a variety of channels and quickly switch to one of the channels instantly if I want to see what’s happening there on the larger screen.
AT&T is offering more coverage than just what’s being broadcast on TV. You can also get online coverage and mobile coverage taking advantage of the AT&T U-verse network.
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