Hi Kevin,
Personally, I backup my data daily on the cloud, and I wouldn't care if
the software I use is running on my PC or on the cloud provided that the
functionality is there. However, would a cloud-based infrared remote
control program, which I use to control my media player from my dining
room table, be technically feasible? What about Kurzweill 1000? Could
it detect my scanner from the cloud? Go ahead software developers, show
me what you can do! I'll bite! smile
Cheers,
Rod
On 1/17/14 4:39 PM, Kevin Huber wrote:
Hi Jim and all:
Some of us might remember back in the 1970s when computing used to be
done on mainframes and we used dumb terminals. When the first
personal computers came out, it was a step forward to be able to have
all your processing capability and all your software right in front of
you and to be able to save your work on a local medium.
Now, if indeed Microsoft is going to the cloud, it sounds like a major
step back to those days which I just talked about.
What do you think?
Kevin Huber
On 1/14/14, Jim Grimsby JR. <[email protected]> wrote:
Well I will not remark on wether or not Microsoft will or will not shift
us
completely to the cloud. There are good reasons to do this and good reasons
not to do this. I am not sure what camp Microsoft is in. one thing I will
say though is I fermly believe that windows pro is heading for a phone
device near you. Microsoft windows phone has failed. In fact quite frankly
I don’t think it was ever intended to really do all that well. the whole
idea behind windows phone was to keep the name Microsoft in the mobile
market. Microsoft has been waiting tell such time as the phone devices were
powerful enough to power a full fledged computing operating system. When
you
could get a reasonable battery life out of such a beast. Well the chips are
powerful enough now. There is enough flash memery now. The batterys are
here now. This means that windows pro has to come to a phone. This means
that Microsoft will be launching a updated version of its operating system
this year. They have to. Windows 9 maybe. What ever it is I am guessing
from now on Microsoft will provide free updates to users of windows 8 and
above from hence forth. The operating system is not the cash cow for
Microsoft that it once was. They will do the operating system as a
distribution system just as android is for google. At some point they will
probably deal with the fact that there really are not a lot of modern apps
and more for IOS and android buy allowing android apps to run on windows.. I
do think you will see more and more cloud apps yes. I don’t think though
that windows will go completely to the cloud. I don’t really think that
most people are really comfortable with this idea, and I don’t think they
will ever be so. Second if you had a outage of any kind your operating
system just would not boot. Nope don’t see it. finely your last point if
screen reader companys are thinking about this. doesn’t matter at some
point Microsoft is going to have to build a screen reader in to the kernel
of windows that will perform all the tasks of a screen reader running at
the
process level. The arguments against this no longer apply. So the screen
reading companys might want to be thinking about celling there technology
to Microsoft and highering on as consoltance or doing something else
altogether. The days of the screen reader ceperate from the operating
system are numbered.
From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:35 AM
To: GW Micro Product Discussion Listserv
Subject: Ready For The Cloud?
Hi:
Here is an article about the Microsoft plans for the Windows Operating
System in the next 2 or 3 years.
I dont think the current state of screen readers are anywhere ready for
this
change but perhaps we will hear something from GW about this planned
quantum
change since we know how the current state of screen readers work with
things like cloud computing, google and other CMS Style internet
interfaces.
Here is the article I read:
8 is approaching its one-year birthday, and while that usually means a new
version
is in the works for most products,
Microsoft
usually puts a few years in between versions to keep things steady.
However, the
company may be speeding things up, as, according to
Geek.com
, it’s rumored that Windows 9 is planned for release sometime next year.
According to an anonymous source
who goes by WZOR
(and who has been behind numerous Microsoft leaks in the past), Windows 9
will see
the light of day in 2014. No other details were provided, other than the
claim that
Aero would be making a comeback in Windows 9 after disappearing in Windows
8, since
it was a hot feature that many avid Windows users missed.
Details on Windows 10 were also provided, with claims that the future
operating system
will be a “cloud OS,” meaning that all of the processing and computing
would be done
on Microsoft’s servers, and be streamed to your computer, completely
eliminating
the need for a powerful rig and only requiring the basic bits to run
peripherals
and such. Windows 10 would essentially just be a new cloud service for
Microsoft,
on top of
Office 365
and the new Xbox Cloud on
Xbox One
, pushing the company further into the cloud ecosystem.
Of course, we would like to remind you to take these rumors with a grain of
salt,
as WZOR says he received the information from a third party, which means
the
info
could’ve easily gotten misinterpreted on the way, similar to a game of
telephone
that you used to play in grade school. The technology for a full cloud OS
is
certainly
there, but it definitely needs a bit of work before Microsoft can make it a
mainstream
product. Here’s hoping that the company can pull it off, and by then local
storage
may be a thing of the past.
Until then, we’re still waiting for
Windows 8.1′s release in October
, so let’s not get too ahead of ourselves.
DT.
Well, gang, how well does WE work with 365, Google and with other internet
cloud based projects like word processors, database managers and now it
looks like operating systems - Google Chrome etc... comes to mind.
Lets hope the Screen Reader companies are doing their homework!
This will be a quantum change in the underlying code base and accessibility
issues and especially surrounding legacy Operating Systems me thinks.
Rick USA
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