McNealy tells Microsoft: it's 'Game Over'

Sun Microsystems CEO and president, Scott McNealy, told a London conference this week the game is over for Microsoft.

McNealy envisages that the future of computing will be dominated by wireless devices - none of which will feature Microsoft's Windows operating system.

"The wireless market is the future. Microsoft has figured out that it has no way of making money out of the wireless market and no good ideas about how to get out of this problem," said McNealy.

McNealy also commented on proclamations made by the company's chief technology officer, Bill Joy, at a conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Joy said the future of software development has to involve collaboration.

McNealy said: "I would never plan to work with Microsoft but I would welcome the opportunity. The fact is Sun has been working with standards bodies from day one. Microsoft will work with us on these, but not because they want to... What I'd really like would be for Microsoft to publish the source code for Windows."

McNealy concluded with a dire warning for Microsoft. He believes the software giant will have no part in the wireless revolution and the future of computing.

"The gig is up for Microsoft, because they don't own TCIP/IP; LAN Manager lost. They don't own http; COM + DCOM lost. They don't own HTML and XML; Word lost... It's over gang".