Ballmer: The Slates Are Coming

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 03:45 PM, Michael Haney wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 08:43 AM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>>>> For a number of reasons, I don't agree that tablets will replace PCs.
>>>
>>> Nor do I agree that PCs will become irrelevant and be replaced by the cloud.
>>>
>>> Let's wait and see.
>>>
>>
>> I see something more like the Private Cloud than using something out
>> on the Internet.  My vision of the future is far more attainable right
>> now.  Users would connect to a powerful central computer in the home
>> that is connected to the Internet.  This computer can run
>> sophisticated games, play movies, play music,browse the web and grab
>> emails simultaneously for multiple users.  There's only one central
>> computer in the house to manage and update.  The family connects using
>> whatever they want, be it a graphical terminal that gives them a
>> desktop and provides ports for connecting devices like a webcam, a
>> digital camera, game controllers and etc, a tablet for web browsing,
>> or anything else you might imagine.  These connections can be wired or
>> wireless.  For wired connections we're talking FAST optical fiber
>> networks, and for wireless we're talking about something beyond the
>> 802.11n standard we have now.
>
> FAST optical fiber? Like what? 10Gbit? Seriously? Maybe when costs come
> down...and I mean really come down.
>
>
>>
>> I see this possibly happening in about 10 years, but its somewhat
>> achievable right now to a limited degree.  The technology isn't quite
>> there yet to make this work as I described it above.
>>
>
> So 10Gbit ain't good enough for you?
>

No, that's fast enough, but like you said its still too expensive.
The price will eventually come down.  What we lack if the raw
computing power to make this happen without needing a NASA-esque
budget, and we also need the support for OS developers to make it
happen.

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