* Mark Kent peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Thin-Clients Revisited
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>>| The death of the PC is predicted once again. Of course I will be wrong like
>>| all the others before me. Personal Computing is so seductive that it will
>>| morph into ultra-cheap low-powered devices that hybridise the web thin-client
>>| with the personal device. Even Dell are aiming to release a sub $100 Linux
>>| (Ubuntu?) notebook. What I can say, however, is that the day of the big
>>| beige/black box is stone dead maybe it will take a major operating system
>>| vendor with it.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/thin-clients-revisited.html
>
> I agree entirely... the desktop is very very dead, long live the
> appliance and the mobile device.
Desktop: <gravelly voice> "I'm not dead yet."
Mark: "Yes you are. You'll be stone-dead in a moment."
Mark: "Isn't there something you can do?"
Bill Gates: <kills desktop with a blow to the head>
--
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they
all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
-- Bill Gates
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