I also consider windows a dead/dying OS, everything is moving to Android/iOS at an unprecedented speed.
Are you suggesting the desktop is dying ? loll. I wouldnt worry much for Microsoft for the coming years (aka they will sell as much windows/office licences as usual)
The majority of future desktops will run Android or iOS.
I disagree. I think that Android, iOS, and smartphone interfaces are designed for touchscreens and won't stray far from that.
I believe that we will split into tablety-smartphoney media viewers running something akin to iOS, while desktop PCs will run something comparable to today's desktop interfaces. I could imagine, though that the average '
I need a new internet' computer user will end up using something tablety (which M$ loses out on), while constructive home users use something more geek-freindly (which M$ looses out on). Then as such geek-friendly systems become synonymous with productivity, businesses will cash in of the huge savings afforded by free-software (which M$ looses out on).
We will then have a big, galumphing corporation, downgrading its main product to &#*%$ every 3 years, trying to work out which direction to go in, toying with useless innovation, while lagging behind what people actually buy.
In the portable market, there will be pocket things with touchscreens which people buy because its a
useful communication device that they can waste time on, and something with a real keyboard and a big dispaly that can be used as a entertainment device, or for real work.
That leaves two things:
a hybrid 'what
is it' device that allows geeky productivity in your pocket, sitting happily in its niche
something useless (magical fantastic brilliant amazing so easy great wonderful fun brilliant awesome) that people buy because it has shiny round corners.
In other words, like the present, but with something media orientated and tablety having deeper market penetration as the easy computer for normal people.