Over the past couple of decades I’ve witnessed a great deal of changes in computers and I see many more changes in the future. I remember helping my parents unpack my first computer that came with a very large price tag. I also remember about 20 years ago sitting behind that bulky box with a floppy drive that required the user to insert the floppy into the computers drive, wait a few minutes, then on the command prompt type in commands in order to use the game or software that was inserted in the floppy drive. Everything was slow to start and run, the graphics were poor (but at the time I thought it was great), and everything was simple. Compare that to today where a press of a button and you are almost instantly surfing the internet. Computer devices are a fraction of the size with laptops, tablets, PDAs, and cellphones and cost almost nothing compared to the large price tags of the past. Everything now is so much faster from hardware to software with graphics that are almost lifelike. I can only imagine what the future in computer technology has in store for all of us. With the cost of computer hardware and devices being more and more affordable I see the future where your computer is a hand held device that is as thin as glass about the size of a piece of paper that wirelessly connects to a virtual server or servers that store all your information remotely.

Currently Microsoft controls over 90 percent of the PC software market today and many see Microsoft will maintain that position in the future. If I had to speculate on the possibility of using a computer interface developed by a company other than Microsoft two years from now or even five years from now I would have to say VMware. VMware is becoming more and more dominate in creating/making it possible to host multiple virtual