We all know Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft for a while. He'll probably be back in the next decade. But where will M$ be in what Bill gates calls "the next digital decade". Well first of all lets do a review on the first "digital decade" (this decade). Bill gates was right. The 1st digital deade was very successful. And the thing is, is that nobody had to lead it. The new and first digital decade was inevitable. Microsoft ruled the 90's and had the driver's seat with Windows 95. This decade Apple mainly had the driver's seat with the ipod/itunes ecosystem. However they failed to bring the digital experiance to the living room. Instead Microsoft did this with such products as the Xbox 360 and Windows Media Center. Apple TV fell flat on it's face and no matter what apple comes out with, its too late. Microsoft got their first and there's only 1 year left in this decade.

But what about the next decade? Where will Apple, Microsoft and the others be. We don't know for sure. I'm guessing that Microsoft's "connected digital experiance" wil become a reality and other companies will follow. Xbox will sure no doubt continue competing again the PS4 and Wii2 (code-names). And the Zune will become mainstream and eat a whole bunch of apple's market share. Windows will refreash and will become more advance usuing impressive features such as the undevloped and rumored "Windows future storage" and Windows Home server will sure become popular. Blu-ray, I have a strong feeling will become market leader early next decade and will become what DVD is today. But by 2015-2016 the internet will fully take-over and will deliver free HD content, so after Blu-rayHard Drives will become mainstream. And of course evryone will own a HDTV and it will be connected to their computers.ANd consumers will always be connected with who they want to be.

So I may be getting off on the wrong foot about the next digital decade and most of these thing will become standard like HDTV's, everyone will own one. If this happens than Blu-ray happens. And unless HD-DVD can get it's support back, that format is dead. And it'll also be interesting to see that "iphone" or "windows 95" of the 2010's.