Leo Laporte predicts the end of Windows

Excellent interview with Leo Laporte, one of the hosts of Tech TV's Screen Savers show, who agrees with my own personal view: that Windows' clock is ticking in the face of the combined power of the open source movement and Unix.

Couple of choice quotes to whet your whistle:

It's gonna get increasingly difficult for private enterprise to compete against open source, because open source combines the goodwill and efforts of thousands of people in all different areas in a way that they can marshal so much more brainpower than any private company can. What open source teaches us is that while money is an important motivator for people, it's not the only motivator.

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Well, the PC platform is going to outlive the Windows platform. In other words, because the PC platform is essentially open, it can run other operating systems, and it's open to people modifying it. So it will have a longer life span than Microsoft Windows, which is maintained, operated, and completely controlled by a single corporation. I don't think Microsoft is going to maintain its ascendancy forever. In fact, I would be surprised it it's anywhere near as dominant 10 years from now as it is now.

On the other hand, while the PC will be different 10 years from now, we will recognize it the descendant of the computer today. I don't think it will be that much different. Will it be running Windows? Probably not.