I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.