1. As you may know, Windows 7 is Microsoft’s best-selling operating system ever and to no surprise it is also their best OS ever. So, plan all your instructional projects on the W7 OS as it will stay with as for a while. However, keep in mind the following two predictions.
2. MiMo stands for Microsoft Mobile and the Windows Phone 7 will prove to be a player. Market trends and sales numbers are proven promising for the company and the future of MMOS (Microsoft Mobile OS). Still a long way to go in order to catch up to the iPhone and Android, but numbers place the MMOS in third just behind Android and iPhone—nonetheless, WP7 is a solid product to consider.
3. Microsoft’s move to “the cloud” will continue. In this context, the “cloud” is the encompassing term for more and more computing functionality moving to the Internet, instead of being done on your computer at home. Microsoft has cloud versions of Office and many other products (think “Google Docs”, where you the documents are stored remotely, on a Google server, rather than your local hard drive). Those offerings will get more sophisticated in 2011, and more usable.
