Not so long ago I heard an Internet guru talk what Microsoft has told inside people already about cloud computing. They did not mention cloud at that time tough.
MS and others are sick of software piracy ... heck windows 7 is already out there ... hacked! Solution is to sell you usertime, just like pay-as-you-go airtime. You need a document to be written and emailed? You buy 3 hours of MS Word to write, for the photo's you buy Adobe CSX online editing and inserting for 2 hours and for the figures in there pay MS Excel for 6 hours to get the calculation done. It all in the cloud with paypall attached or Visa etc... You doc is stored on the web, your photo is stored on the web and your email sits on the web. Best yet, work from a netbook that will work as an good old days mainframe dumb terminal. Open office will probably follow suit and offer the web version of their apps if they don't already do. Big advantage for the software industry... there is no app to be cracked anymore. No more big software patches to be uploaded etc.... My inside 2c On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 19:59 +0800, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 04:11:15 pm [email protected] > wrote: > > > 10 years sounds like a long stretch. Most Netbook users > > are exposed to some 'type' of cloud (e.g. http://box.net > > or https://one.ubuntu.com). Google is simply trying to > > monopolize the cloud with more sophisticated 'apps' > > betting that WE can and should trust them as the > > technology power player... which, surprisingly we did > > with gmail while it was still in beta. In context WE > > will tend to rely more on the google cloud than any of > > the others. I wonder if its fair to say they've borrowed > > a page from Jean Piaget on Object Permanence. > > If you think about it, "cloud computing" is nothing new to > us. This isn't the first time we've stored some part of our > lives in "the cloud". > > As basic as Hotmail and Yahoo were back then (and may still > be, today), having a mobile e-mail client that doubled as a > file storage centre was some form of "trust in the cloud". > > It's not new, it's not revolutionary. It's just evolving, > like most things on the Internet - and for the same reasons > most never fully transformed to web-based e-mail will be the > same ones a few folk continue to localize applications. > > Mark. > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
