Microsoft view of the future of computing
Dan Farber ar CNET reports on a recent speech by a top executive about Microsoft’s ideas on the future of computing:
Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie on Thursday offered a long-term view of where Microsoft and the world of computing are heading over the next few decades. Speaking at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference here, Mundie envisioned a 3D virtual world populated by virtual presences, using a combination of client and cloud services.
He called this next generation “spatial computing” and listed numerous attributes: many-core processors; parallel programming; seamlessly connected and fully productive; context-aware and model-based; personalized, humanistic, and adaptive; 3D and immersive; and utilizing speech, vision and gestures.
Another report on Mundie’s presentation is from Business Tech. Mike Ricciuti writes:
Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, offered up the company’s vision for the next phase of computing at the EmTech conference here on Thursday. That vision includes an increasing reliance on cloud-based computing, robotics, and far-flung sensors. And, Mundie says, client-based operating systems.
“Whether it’s Windows or something else, something has to make all of this iron work. People say OS is irrelevant, (but) demands on the operating system are actually getting higher and higher,” Mundie said.
Still, Mundie acknowledged that most people “don’t choose Windows…they choose applications. It’s the killer apps people are choosing and that will be true in the next generation” of computing.
“I think that will be true as we go forward with this new composite platform. People won’t really care what the iron is, or the underlying OS.”
Mundie’s comments underscore a primary concern for Microsoft, as cloud computing becomes more widespread: How does the company keep Windows relevant?
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