I like your 2 cents. I also believe if desktop computer power is moved
into the cloud. Overall everything will be more effecient. My computer
will no longer still idle at home waiting for me to get off work.
Instead as part of a cloud it will always be ready for me to take
advantage of. Or for some other subscriber when I am not using it.
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 22, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Rob Gipman <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
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