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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft's big nightmare: free online apps
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| A new generation of browsers is about to make Web
>| applications better than downloadable desktop software.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| No software will be downloaded to your hard drive, and
>| everything is free. You could be working on a document
>| on an office computer, hit "Save," go home, and resume
>| work. You could be using Windows, Mac OS X, or Ubuntu
>| Linux; the application is agnostic, so long as you
>| have the latest browser.
> `----
>
> http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/10/01/8387120/index.htm?postversion=2006102307
> http://tinyurl.com/y7caq8
>
This is an inevitable consequence of the death of the desktop. Consider
that people are increasingly mobile, so their data and apps really need
to be stored somewhere.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Save yourself from the 'Gates' of hell, use Linux." -- like that one.
-- The_Kind @ LinuxNet
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