Page 2 - The Future of Computing

Will Microsoft ever be dethroned?

Probably not in the recent future, but at one point every company is dethroned, that is unless they get a monopoly but since the can't. All it takes is one sub par OS and a decent competitor and microsoft would go downhill. For example if mac released their OS to be able to run on PC's microsoft would lose a lot of business but mac would also lose their hardware sales so they would struggle and die and then microsoft is back on top. It has to happen eventually but no where in the near future.

Yes, tomorrow at 8.00 AM.

Dunno know why I replying cuz this is a retarded thread but:

The future of computing will be integrated CPU/GPU chips using Chaos transistors. There will no longer be a struggle to get as many transistors on a chip but rather to get as many cores on a chip. Intel has already said in 5 years they will have a operational 80 core chip.

There will also be no mechanical parts in computer (besides maybe fans). There will not be another great leap in computer storage speed by building platters that spin faster or cables that xfer more data. The way the data is stored is going to change. It will be on a distant cousin of flash memory. With much higher w/r speeds.

Microsoft of course will not be pushing the industry but advancements will still be fueled by the gaming and server industries. Microsoft will still take forever to release new OS's that take advantage of the new technologies. How long have all of us had some kind of a 64bit chip or another. All the while we still "buy" or use windows xp.

For the average user MS will be the desktop OS of choice long into the future because 90% of apps are designed for them and for their OSes. On the server level I think they will begin to lose out more and more due to the scalability and program-ability of Linux.

My 2 cents.

have you seen the size of their prototype of the 80 core chip. well a "wafer" of the chip they said. it looks like this:

Well, within the next 365 days, we will see more of the same I think. The trend of moving to having many slower parts making stuff faster will continue, 4 core CPUs, quad GPUs becoming more prominent. I think that PCIe 2.0 is going to be released this year as well, which will add a few new interesting things to the table, such as extension cables that allow you to run cards up to 10 meters away on simple copper-wire lines, as well as 225-300W of power being able to be drawn per slot. Other than that, not much. In graphics cards, we will see what the new cards can do; they are expected to be very quick this time around. DDR3 may also make it's appearence, but I doubt it. DDR2 has far from run it's course and it's still getting faster. It'll just be more scaling up otherwise. I don't think this will be a year of extreme change, just normal advancements. Oh, and of course, Vista will be released, so that may stir up a few things in the software world. It will probably end up being a major driving force in the software industry, but the control that Microsoft may have once had on the hardware industry is now gone, they need to fully adopt to the hardware industry, while the hardware industry has to adopt to them. Most notably, DX10 will become the new standard.

What is funny though is that the hardware industry has always had this trend of scaling things up to as fast as they can go alone, and then the start running those devices in parrallel until somebody figures out that it will again be easier to scale everything again. PCI to AGP, back to PCIe. IDE to SATA. Com ports to parallel ports, to USB ports. It's always the same, we jump form serial to parallel, then back to serial, and inveitably so on and so forth. This applies to buses, not sure how it will work for other things like CPUs and GPUs, though. I don't think the trend of multi-GPU systems will continue forever, though.

No chance dx10 will become standard within next 365 days.

This is the future I have come to realize

33mhz of extreme intel power $200
150megs of extreme storage $300
50 watt extreme psu $100

Reazlizing you wasted $600 on outdated junk: Priceless

off topic but

star wars kid.... you joined a few months ago and youve got near 2000 posts!!!?? and way more rep than me!!! WOOOAHHH... I envy you. lol

if i had more time in the day id do more, but thats good man. keep it up.


anyways, i see a time when none of this will come true, because apparently theres supposed to be a nuclear fallout in 2010.
cant remember where i heard that. scared the shit outta me.

rep don't matter all that much to me. It don't do anything

Anyways its known as day or reckoning and is suppossed to happen 2012.

Has anyone wondered how fast the computers will be in a years time; when Vista will have taken over the world and DX10 is the new de facto standard in the graphics world?

By that time the PS3 and Wii (cough) will have made their mark on society as well, and Sony will begin working on the PS4 and M$ on the Xbox 720......

Any comments?

Consoles are OK for gaming an for gaming only. Problem with consoles is that they are based on PC technology (read it nvidia, ATI) and PC will allways be one step in front of consoles. On the other side consoles are specialised and cheaper.
Sbout DX 10, DirectX is a metter of API, implementation ability of hardware to handle it, it means that as long as we don't see if it is better than previous versions it means nothing. Newer versions doesn't necesary means better (for example ACDSee 3.1 is [my oppinion] much better/faster than ACDSee 8.0).

When do you think solid state storage will get to the price range and ubiquity of normal harddrives?

CPU's: Quad core (and finally seeing games programmed for multicore!)

Memory: Slow movement over to DDR3

Video: PCI-E 2.0 and more quad-card solutions

HDD: 1-2TB storage drives

Optical: Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war

4 cards will always be an indulgence and ott solution.

1 good card will always be good enough for all the games at max settings.
they wouldnt make a popular game for only SLi setup or quad car users... hopefully not