The (Very Near) Future of Microsoft Windows Is Here, Now!

I have warned many a BoomBustBlog reader not to discount Microsoft in the mobile computing wars (Don’t Count Microsoft Out of the Ultra-Mobile Computing Wars Just Yet).
Their recent tech, whether it be mobile OS, cloud-based or interface
related is impressive and represent clean starts and breaks from the
past hegemony.  May I introduce the future of Microsoft Windows?

If you think that is a little far fetched, it is currently running on a Microsoft OS at MIT using the Xbox Kinnect interface. MIT’s
brain labs cobbled together the hand detection system that has been
pretty much fantasy up until now, and has used Microsoft’s Kinect
accessory for the Xbox 360 to do it. The clip below illustrates a
demonstration using a makeshift picture-scrolling UI.

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is the only game console increasing sales growth
rate this season, and there is little wonder why. From a technical,
applied, innovation and user experience perspective, it literally
obliterates the competition (Sony’s Playstation and Nintendo’s Wii) and
is obviously the future of gaming. This is all run on 6 year old
hardware, at that! For those wondering how this is related to mobile
tech, just think of how many times people have complained about having
to little real estate on their smart phone screens…. There Is Another Paradigm Shift Coming in Technology and Media: Apple, Microsoft and Google Know its Winner Takes All

Of course, there are some things that even technology can’t compensate for…

For more on the race to win the mobile computing wars, see:

1. There Is Another Paradigm Shift Coming in Technology and Media: Apple, Microsoft and Google Know its Winner Takes All
2. The Mobile Computing and Content Wars: Part 2, the Google Response to the Paradigm Shift
3. An Introduction to How Apple Apple Will Compete With the Google/Android Onslaught
4. Don’t Count Microsoft Out of the Ultra-Mobile Computing Wars Just Yet
5. This article should drive the point home: An iPhone 4 Recall Will Hurt Apple More By Opening Additional Opportunity for Android Devices Than Increased Expenses
6. A First in the Mainstream Media: Apple’s Flagship Product Loses In a Comparison Review to HTC’s Google-Powered Phone
7. After Getting a Glimpse of the New Windows Phone 7 Functionality, RIMM is Looking More Like a Short Play
8. RIM Smart Phone Market Share, RIP?
9. Android is gaining preference as the long-term choice of application developers
10. A Glimpse of the BoomBustBlog Internal Discussion Concerning the Fate of Apple
11. Math and the Pace of Smart Phone Innovation May Take a Byte Out of Apple’s (Short-lived?) Dominance
12. Apple on the Margin
13. RIM Smart Phone Market Share, RIP?
14. Motorola, the Company That INVENTED the Cellphone is Trying to Uninvent the iPad With Android
15. Android Now Outselling iOS? Explaining the Game of Chess That Google Plays in the Smart Phone Space
16. There
    Goes Those Fancy eBook Aspirations from Apple, Barnes
    and Noble, and Amazon: 100,000’s of FREE eBooks from the
    Public Library
17. How
    Google is Looking to Cut Apple’s Margin and How the
    Sell Side of Wall Street Will Enable This Without
    Sheeple Investor’s Having a Clue
18. Empirical Evidence of Android Eating Apple!
19. More of the Android Onslaught: Increasing Handset Revenues and Growth
20. Many More Black Eyes for the Blackberry? A Complete Forensic Analysis of Research in Motion
21. The BoomBustBlog Multivariate Research in Motion Valuation Model: Ready for Download
22. The Complete, 63 pg Google Forensic Valuation is Available for Download
23. iSuppli Continues to Validate BoomBustBlog’s Original Thesis: Android as the Viral Game Changer!
24. BoomBustBlog Research Hits Another One Out the Park! Google up nearly 10% after hours, true blowout earnings unlike JPM
25. As
    I Warned in June, DO NOT DISCOUNT Microsoft in This Mobile Computing
    War! Their Marketing Campaign is PURE GENIUS! and it Appears as if
    the Phone Ain’t Bad Either
26. Reggie Middleton Wasn’t the ONLY Openly Apple Bear in the Blogoshpere, Was He?
27. A Quick Peek Into the REAL WORLD Logic That Went Into Building the BoomBustBlog Apple Model: It’s Called Compression!!!

Comments

[tamboo]

mmm yeah cutting edge windows xp mode, lol

enjoy your back door security holes and viruses.

i'll stick with ubuntu hardy heron thanks.

[redrob25]

tamboo,

Try Windows 7, which has less security holes than almost all versions of Linux and Mac's OS X. (That info from the CTO of McAfee at a SANS security conference). The only Linux version stronger than MS Windows 7 is Mandriva (formerly Mandrake).

Microsoft has come light years in the security department in a very short time. And Windows 7 is a very nice OS.

I have a two-year in Unix Administration and have been in IT/IT Audit for 13 years. I'm not a fanboi but this is a more objective analysis of the current landscape.

[thrashaholic]

"Less security holes than almost all versions of Linux and OS X" ?!

That has to be the most ignorant, misinformed, marketing-spun bullshit I've ever heard. No wonder engineers hate IT monkeys.

Love,
a kernel dev.

P.S. An OS is only as secure as its Userland. Head to head, a SELinux hardened kernel with the associated jails and policies is better than any Windows install, past-present-future. The NSA doesn't fuck around.

[cowdiddly]

+1000

[ebworthen]

Reggie - you are wading into waters full of Apple alligators and Linux piranhas.

XBOX 360 sales have spiked pre-holiday; but some people just don't like the Microsoft Manatee.

[Eternal Student]

Stick to finance, Reggie. If you think their tech is impressive, you don't know tech. Or Microsoft.

[bullchit]

Jeez Reggie.....Buy a Rolls from MS and 12 months down the line find you've bought a tractor. MS can't even get 6.5 to gel with it's own operating systems. And anyone who bought that piece of shit can now fuck off as mobile 7 is not available as an upgrade. Gee, thanks Bill.

Regards.

[MarketTruth]

6.x worked great for me and WP7 is a big upgrde and thus yes new and more powerful hardware is needed. Welcome to life as normal for computers and OS.

Maybe you'd prefer Tandy Deskmate or a Mac Lisa? So how is that Mac Lisa upgrade to MAC OSx going?

Look, this is normal J6P CE stuff. If you are hardcore then go Linux/Unix.

[Widowmaker]

Their tech may be bleeding edge, but management, and execution is as piss poor as it gets.   Tell me how MS integrates?

Oh, they don't -- they pass that on to the end user to iron out the kinks, along with the most convoluted licensing too.  They love to shit on their customers, and have for two decades.

XBox and the red ring of death, always a winning combination.  Reggie, tell me of one other mfg that has had such systemic equipment failure...

[Gully Foyle]

Um yeah the Kinect is just so 21st century. I hope we soon see the MS Jetpack. But I fear the RROD may cause many needless, but cool, splatterd from a great height deaths.

[trav7777]

yeah, um, XB360 does not in any way shape or form obliterate the competition

[covert]

not sure that it will sell well. microsoft caters to a mentality of less than retarted baby chimps. looks more like a pi version of unix. ms is investing in the wrong direction.

http://covert2.wordpress.com