A new year has come and perhaps some things might be different (if you believe all that Mayan calendar stuff etc.) but mostly it probably would be a case of ‘more of the same’ with few sporadic changes here and there. Sounds like a weather forecast…
On the personal front there is at least Mass effect 3 to look forward to and ‘moa’ hitting the big 4 later the year (like in 40).
On the technology front, hopefully this year would be the (start of) year of Microsoft entering the successful tablet market (lets not mention the previous attempts that went nowhere). I’m still not impressed with the Windows 8 metro interface – for traditional PC’s and the fact that they (Microsoft) is again abandoning their own supporters (.Net and specifically Windows applications). Seems it is the one thing you can count on from them – no matter how much they push something they eventually will drop it and the whole community that supports it.
Apple had a few good years but I suspect that will come to an end soon as there are now too many competitors and mr Jobs is not with us anymore. They have been loosing more and more court cases and their products are not that much more ‘better’ than the rest. However, expect them to hang around for a while as they have become so big that quick failure is not that easy anymore.
Google and the Android/Chrome crowd may reaching new heights and Firefox (and IE) will continue to loose market share. That is a bit of a sour point – ever since Firefox started to do things ‘Chrome’ style they have been chasing the ‘others’ in the market instead of leading by example. I’ll still use Firefox for a while though… IE will probably loose even more ground this year as no one takes it seriously anymore. The bad name that IE6 gave it (plus the anti-trust case remnants) will prevent any new market share growth soon.
If by chance the Mayans had it right then at least we don’t have to worry anymore about global warming, corrupt politicians, no good sci-fi, invasion from Mars or anything remotely as bad. But enough of the moaning and groaning…
Or maybe I must just admit I’m getting old…
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