Windows and other client operating systems will begin to resemble browsers. Operating systems are growing increasingly document-centric, object-oriented and Internet-aware. True document-oriented computing will come to the industry forefront with the next version of Windows.
Predictor: Kobielus, James
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Network World, James Kobielus, a senior telecommunications analyst with LCC, an Arlington, Va.-based network design and engineering firm, writes about the future of networking: ”Over the next few years, Windows and other client operating systems will begin to resemble browsers. Operating systems are growing increasingly document-centric, object-oriented and Internet-aware. True document-oriented computing will come to the industry forefront with the next version of Windows – code-named Cairo – which is expected sometime between 1997 and 1999.”
Date of prediction: November 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Network World
Title, headline, chapter name: Browsers Are Coming on Strong as the Preferred Application Launching Point
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did=000000008680917&Fmt=3&Deli=1&Mtd=1&Idx=1&Sid=3&RQT=309
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