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Software Evolution by: Rafael Sosa As Internet connections become more permanent with broadband access, software will be able to evolve intomore efficient and personalized medium. Currently, most software run from our hard drives and require installations that alter our system configurations, many times slowing down our computers. Because software occupies space and processing power, there islimited amount of software that can run in our PCs. On business side, current software systems require many companies to produce system of distribution (Compac Discs), customer support, and is usually not compatible with all customers, thus limiting its customer base further. A software evolution is ocurring and it is going to benefit both customers and businesses immensly. Software will no longer come as packet that needs to be installed onPC, but rather it will be completely Web based. Web based software will becomedefault way of reaching customers. Customers will have advantages such as, using unlimited amount of software, using applications regardless of where person is or which computer he/she is using, software can be personalized and upgraded to meet specific needs to each individual. Businesses will be able to, reduce costs, reachlarger customer pool, taylor its software to diverse markets, repair bugs more rapidly and easily, understand its customer andway they use their software, etc. In order for this software revolution to occur in whole, there needs to becentral point. Like Miscrosoft’s DOS ineightzero’s, which became standard choice of operating system to centralize and organize our computer operations, there needs to beonline operating system. As of now, Microsoft has builtempire because of its vision and their dominance inOS market. However, now there iswindow of opportunity to takelarge chunk of that empire and possibly eliminate Microsoft’s monopoly ofOperating System. While there are many companies and organizations (Apple, Linux, Lindows) out there trying to takebite out of Microsoft by competing onsame turf, PC users are accostumed to Windows and will most likely not switch. The opportunity to eliminate this monopoly is to createOnline Operating System. PC users will inevitably move completely online. An Online Operating System will becentral point of every user in future. There are online companies who haveinside advantage to this, such as Yahoo!, Google, and AOL, but it can be anyone’s medal, even tofairly unknown competitor, as was Microsoft when they introduced DOS toworld. In this new concept of Operating System, there can be larger space of diversity and can be shared by more companies, unlike current status. |
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