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PC Quest: From the OS Warfront

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 22, 1998

Thanks to subhas
for this link.

“The year was supposed to belong to NT 5 and its Active
Directory. But Linux stole the show with unprecedented corporate,
media and software vendor attention.”

Recommended reading. In this perspicacious and far-ranging
article, author Krishna Kumar covers the whole panoply of operating
system developments in 1998 for India’s technology magazine
PC Quest.

He concludes:

“In the long-term, operating systems will evolve around how the
current anti-trust case against Microsoft develops, how Java
evolves, and how the market for embedded systems and smart cards
shape up.”

Read From
the OS Warfront
.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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