Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 10th Oct 2006 08:51 UTC
In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic. Ask around the office. You'll hear the Gen Xers sneer about how Microsoft's operating system is, well, so yesterday. Even a fair number of IT greybeards are warming to the notion that the times, they are a changing.
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Member since:2006-01-06
I don't think web services will _ever_ replace running local applications on a stand-alone pc. They will keep supplementing each other, but that's it.
Moving entirely to web services would require a level of quality service guarantees and bandwidth that simply isn't possible right now.
Member since:2005-10-02
Personally I have doubts it will ever be possible. There will be always be a need for applications capable of running without having network access.
True, the need may decline, but it will not disappear. Anyway, I think people should concentrate on making the "worlds" supplement eachother even better, enhancing both of them.
Usually great break-throughs come from combining technologies and not replacing them.
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2005-10-02
*cough*Web2.0*cough* *cough*is*cough* BULLSHIT*cough*
To be hones, anybody mentioning Web 2.0 in their articles lose any credibility in my eyes.
However, I think people consider sliced bread so good because you don't have to slice the bread yourself.
Not that I can see any particular problem with slicing it yourself, but what else could it be?
Anyway... Honey Ale from any microbrew easily beats sliced bread
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Back to the article. It was pretty much a lot of irrelevant nonsens. No true content. No jabs at Microsoft, no jabs at anyone, no nothing at all.
I don't think web services will _ever_ replace running local applications on a stand-alone pc. They will keep supplementing each other, but that's it.