Why was Tannenbaum wrong in the Tannenbaum-Torvalds debates?

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I was recently assigned reading from the Tannenbaum-Torvalds debates in my OS class. In the debates, Tannenbaum makes some predictions:

Microkernels are the future
x86 will die out and RISC architectures will dominate the market
(5 years from then) everyone will be running a free GNU OS

I was a 1 year old when the debates happened, so I lack historical intuition. Why have these predictions not panned out? It seems to me, that from Tannenbaum's perspective, they're pretty reasonable predictions of the future. What happened so that they didn't come to pass?

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