There are a lot of predictions floating around for the new year. From what I read most of them are pretty much more of the same "This will be the year of the mobile and social networks" To that I say: "The year of mobile has happened" We have crossed the chasm and now more often than not you expect people to have a connected device and to be plugged into the social media network. It's a rarity that I find someone who doesn't have a Facebook profile. We need *real* new predictions! Here are the new things changing the way we live our life in 2011: 1) AppStore for your desktop I think the first thing is an easy prediction - desktop computers are going to start getting AppStores. We already know that Apple is working on one. I don't think Microsoft is going to be far behind. The new AppStore for Desktop is going to revolutionize curation, updates and billing for desktop applications and I expect the desktop innovation to spike up agai
Mike Borozdin - Kubernetes @ Google. Previously: Dir of Eng @ DocuSign, Lead @ Microsoft. I help companies focus and engineers grow.