4. 3D OS
They've talked about this since the '80's. I've seen 3D OS demos (in the late 90's) with hundreds of floating windows (in 3D, obviously) and flipping looked easy. Switching multiple applications using standard desktop is a pain in the arse (at least Amiga has multiple screens).
This has never been more than a demo simply because it isn't how people use computers. People are comfortable with 2D layered windows. They fit the display technology better as well.
I beg to differ about the DEMO part, it is still under development...
see:
http://www.spheresite.com/ 2. The death of Virtual Memory
With 64bit processors and the ability to access >4Gb of RAM, why do we still have slow annoying virtual memory? Virtual memory should have been a temporary workaround until memory became plentiful.
Under windoze, if you have more than 1gb of memory, you can disable the VM ergo swapfile... and the OS does not hickup, just a few progs that don't like it at all...
5. Speech recognition
Whatever happened to that? I'm not saying I want to type a document by saying it, but it might be good for fast OS access like switching windows, running automated tasks or opening programs. Maybe we've already got this, but I haven't seen it.
As one person so properly pointed out, for some weird reason, announcing in a clear loud voice "open naked nymphos number seven jaypeg" just never caught on. Go fig.
ROFL.... too true...
6. The death of Windows
Just kidding - but this would actually be a computer advance
It's getting there.
Yep they are doing a good job at comitting suicide...
