The future compute and information exploitation will be in the Cloud and Cloud services. That requires a step change in compute, which is why the investment in Quantum compute is so critical to their future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43580972
Obviously Microsoft are behind IBM and Google on this next wave, but they appear to be betting on a different Particle.
All this makes discussions on client platforms rather moot. The client has be commoditised, we need to move on. Hoping we will hear a bit more at Build about how they intend to make this future available to us developers, since we know Google are so close to announcing their 50 Qubit compute.
Bats
<p>This makes total sense. People don't care about Operating Systems. Rather, they want their data processed "yesterday", so they can act on it immediately. </p>
katedaisy
<blockquote><a href="#258205"><em>In reply to Bats:</em></a></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">yub, </span>People don't care about Operating Systems<span style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Whether </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">serious</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">work could be done with presentation software is a question for philosophers. </span><a href="https://www.routerlogin.wiki/" target="_blank">router login</a></p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#258205"><em>In reply to Bats:</em></a></blockquote><p>Operating Systems are just a means to an end. Cloud services are just a means to an end too. I've performed software development for a number of successful tech products that didn't bother to use either one. But as a developer, if you need some capability that is is supported by one and not the other, then you care, and by extension, so will your users.</p>
shameermulji
<blockquote><a href="#258239"><em>In reply to wright_is:</em></a></blockquote><p>With the rise in use of mobile operating systems, it looks like this time it's actually happening.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#258799"><em>In reply to hrlngrv:</em></a></blockquote><p>The US has a long history of fighting the last war too. Nearly every tin-pot dictator has been seen to be the next Hitler resulting in many unnecessary military actions on our part.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#258507"><em>In reply to wright_is:</em></a></blockquote><p>I'm not sure what the implications are for WhatsApp being declared illegal in the EU. I have a relative here in the US traveling to Europe this summer and we were planning to use WhatsApp via WiFi to communicated without having to deal with cell phone incompatibilities. Do you know if they'll be able to use WhatsApp if it's already installed?</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#258848"><em>In reply to wright_is:</em></a></blockquote><p>Thanks for the info! Unfortunately since we have Windows phones we can't use Signal and although Threema supports WP, it doesn't support it for voice calls. But when I inevitably transition away from WP, I'll keep these apps in mind.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#258635"><em>In reply to hrlngrv:</em></a></blockquote><p>When this point is brought up I always think of physicist Richard Feynman's story about the painter who claimed he could make yellow paint by mixing white and red. The painter kept trying to make it work, but the result was always pink. Finally in frustration he said: "Hm, I'll just add some yellow paint, to sharpen it up, and then it'll be yellow". "Aha!" said Feynman, "Sure you can get yellow if you add yellow!"</p><p><br></p><p>You can make a cell phone closer to a productive computing environment if you add the elements (the yellow) that make a PC a PC.</p><p><br></p><p>When people question the viability of using a cell phone for serious work they're talking about using it under the conditions that match a cell phone's fundamental characteristic- mobility. The solution for having a powerful computing device that doesn't fit in your pocket is already solved by PCs/Macs and their laptop equivalents. </p>
jean
<p>"What it allows us to do is solve problems that with all of our supercomputers running in parallel would take the lifetime of the universe to solve in seconds, hours or days."</p><p><br></p><p>what does that have to do with Client Computing ?</p><p>or do you really believe that a hyper boost airplane will replace a bike, a car, mandkind walking ? REALLY ?</p><p><br></p><p>Quantum Computing will NOT REPLACE current computing platforms or current cloud platforms</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#259625"><em>In reply to Jules_Wombat:</em></a></blockquote><p>Processing speed has never been the factor holding back true AI. We just don't know how to create it.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#259661"><em>In reply to Jules_Wombat:</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p><p>I'm sure faster hardware would allow NN's to solve Flappy Bird or other toy problems faster.</p><p><br></p><p>As one AI researcher quipped: “An AI algorithm makes the perfect chess move while the room is on fire".</p>