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My guess is that within ten years, Windows will be a GUI running on top of Linux or some flavor of Unix.

A first step could be something like BootCamp. You could boot Linux, allow it to manage security, and let a light version of Windows launch the apps. Windows used to run under DOS, so it’s been done before.

[dfwgator]

I wonder how long until MS takes over the Mono project, which runs Dot Net apps on Linux, especially since they are heavily pushing Silverlight as an alternative to Flash.

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IIRC, the Xandros interface is pretty close to WinXP. I ran Xandros enterprise version for a while and Corel (which Xandros bought)

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

My guess is that within ten years, Windows will be a GUI running on top of Linux or some flavor of Unix.

A first step could be something like BootCamp. You could boot Linux, allow it to manage security, and let a light version of Windows launch the apps. Windows used to run under DOS, so it’s been done before.

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I’ve been thinking the exact same thing. Maybe BSD as the BSD license is supposedly more amenable to this sort of thing.

The things that make me think this are articles such as these and also what seems like to me, the abysmal failure that is Vista. I guess the jury is still out on Vista but it’s starting to look like another Windows ME.

MS’s traditional approach is starting to look as long in the tooth as Windows 3.1 or for that matter DOS did in its day.

Time has a habit of marching on!