Windows 20th Birthday

[mandy]

20 Years of Windows

Tech Analysis: How one operating system came to dominate computing—and what's next. 

full article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1886202,00.asp

and:

Our Wish List for Windows

Tech Analysis: If it were possible to remake Windows with a magic, Windows-morphing wand, standards support and sensible security would be part of the imaginary makeover. 

full article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1886266,00.asp

and:

One GUI to Rule Them All

Opinion: PC users have demonstrably been robbed, not to mince words, of almost 10 years' worth of the innovation in the end-user experience that many PC ecosystem players would have been striving to deliver if Microsoft hadn't told them not to bother—or else. 

full article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885003,00.asp

and finally:

Windows Drives Standards

As Windows has evolved over the past two decades, it has created a standard operating environment that has enabled computer manufacturers to stop having to worry about ensuring that every box has the necessary drivers compatible with every program out there. Instead, they can now focus on the technologies that help them differentiate themselves from their competitors.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885007,00.asp

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