Seamless Computing

Bill Gates presenterade nyligen sin vision om “sömlös datahantering” på COMDEX-mässan. Han vill tydligen bryta ner barriärerna mellan olika typer av information, så att inte längre exempelvis en bildfil och ett mejl ses som distinkta entiteter:

In this decade, we’re engaged on delivering the final level of infrastructure, which is a software connecting infrastructure that connects all your different information together, that lets you work in a very natural way, connects you up to your speech, and your ink, and your photos, all those natural things. And so we talk about this as Seamless Computing, the idea that we, through advanced software, will be able to eliminate those things.

En viktig komponent i detta blir Microsofts nya operativsystem, Longhorn, som skall revolutionera sättet som data lagras på din hårddisk och som tydligen även innehåller en del andra överaskningar:

Likewise, we want to bring visualization to a whole new level. That was one thing that people seeing the “Longhorn” prototype really were jazzed about, because it’s so visual, it’s so exciting to say, hey, this is a whole new level of taking the silicon magic and an approach to writing user interfaces that is way more.

Killen har i alla fall ambitioner. Under tiden säljs piratkopior av Longhorn i Johur Baru, Malaysia.