One reason the OS wars don't matter

TAGS:Boot Camp, OS, Parallels, smackdown, virtualization
IT TOPICS:Applications, Linux & Unix, Macintosh, Networking, Operating Systems, Windows

This OS battle is losing its relevance. With Intel on the Mac, boot options, virtualization, Parallels, Boot Camp and all that, you can almost use whatever OS you want on any machine.

And soon there won't be any OS wars at all. MicroGoogleSoft will control an omnipresent computing "cloud" that we all hook into wirelessly at incredible speeds to use whatever program we need at any time from any place.

Eventually this cloud will become self-aware — and you know what will happen to us humans then.

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