__/ On Saturday 27 August 2005 12:37, [Logician] wrote : \__
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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/columnists.nsf/techtalk/story/26FEC6D0F9C67A7286257068006DDB61?OpenDocument
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> For months the rumours have been building, and now people are openly
> saying that Google will directly challenge Microsoft in the PC
> operating systems market and in other market areas dominated by
> Microsoft.
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> The above is a mirror of what has been said for months now by
> journalists.
>
> Google's cash has been working hard:
>
> http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_36/b3949050_mz011.htm
I foresaw a similar trend before journalists dared to talk about it.
Microsoft dominate the desktop, but computing is drifting towards the
Internet, which is presently dominated by Google.
February:
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/02/22/browsers-to-dominate/
April:
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/04/26/online-os/
I am not saying that others failed to make similar speculations, but notable
writers were reluctant to make statements which are overly bold.
My latest guess was this:
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/08/17/computers-become-hosts/
You will have void machines and carry your favourite O/S, applications and
entire data in your pocket, only using computational servers. There is a
lot of secrecy behind the ambition, which is why Apple, Palm and Microsoft
all push hard towards a good hard-drive-based portable device.
Roy
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