Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Apr 2008 21:53 UTC
Novell's Nat Friedman told InternetNews.com: "The basic concept here is that the standalone operating system is dead." Friedman is Novell's Chief Technology Officer. He added: "The days in which people buy operating systems on their own and then build a stack from there [...] will look like home-built automobiles in the future - people aren't going to do this anymore." This is not the first time some big company predicts the end of the traditional operating system.
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2005-07-23
I really doubt we'll get rid of regular desktops and oses for as long as the web are the only alternative. Seriously web apps sucks, even gmail will be and are worse than a good e-mail client, and well, then what more is there to get? I guess web apps could work ok for a calendar to, but preferably not even for a word processor, even less for something like adobe lightroom or imovie or reason or ...
The web wasn't made for this. People (still) try to design their webpages as if it was a medium designed to be pixel perfect and for exact and accurate design which showed up the same everywhere, guess what? It's not. The information is what matters and if anything imho it's the browsers work to present it in a decent way. If people didn't expect browsers to work like images in photoshop we would have way less problems.
Edited 2008-04-17 22:54 UTC