Linux will NOT conquer the desktop, but gaining some attention through the subnotebook segment

Social-networks will suffer an identity crisis and Facebook will die (wishful thinking).

Your cellphone is a computer! Mobile services on the rise, strong year for VoIP, but even Location Based Services gain.

Video portals will bring the movie industry in serious troubles, but are takeover candidates by big media corp.

Virtualisation 2.0 á la Amazon Webservices: Google will follow, because they can.

Semantic Web: first apps appear which are what flickr was for Web2.0 - an inspiration of the fantasy of start-ups and VCs

Ad Amazon: Kindle is great, and google has a lot in place - say a shopping cart, say a library, maybe a 3G license in the US to follow. The question is about hardware: will they go into a business they don't know? They could still coop with Bookeen, iRex or Hanlin, or - well - Sony

Vista will gain market shares by end of 2008. Bad press but Microsoft is still in control of the market. Apple will get more share of the pie too.

And I will continue my interests into restauration of good old OO-Software Development, against the lean, agile, glossy magazine style software development. I am the Metternich of IT.

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