The world is moving towards the web. In the next five to ten years, applications will be online and the PC will become much simpler; just a screen with a mouse and keyboard and enough compute power to run a web browser. How will this affect the operating system and what are the implications of this for how people use web applications in the future?
Commoditizing the Operating System
The PC of the future will essentially be a web browser. It will have a very simple operating system (compared to Vista, Linux or Mac OS X) whose main job will be to consume services from the Internet. As the operating system will be simple, it will be small. A small operating system can be stored on a memory stick or downloaded at machine boot time from an internet service provider.
This will turn the operating system into a commodity. If a user needs a new operating system (OS), they can buy it for a couple of dollars from Amazon. It will be shipped on a memory stick or the user can download a new copy.
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