Windows and operating systems in general have bewildered their position as the center of invention in the IT industry, stated VMware CEO, former Microsoft executive, as VMworld kicked off ysterday.

Maritz didn't went as far as to state that operating systems will vanish, in comments made throughout a keynote address and in a Q&A session with media. But the functions of operating systems in managing hardware and furnishing a set of abstracted services to applications are being taken over by the virtualization layer and evolution frameworks suchlike, he stated.

"The point is not that quote-unquote operating systems are becoming to vanish," he futher added. "It's the point about where invention is happening. traditionalistic operating systems did two matters. They co-ordinated the hardware and they furnished services to applications. The invention in how hardware is co-ordinated today and the invention in how services are offered to programes is no longer going on inside the operating system."