Dan Shafer wrote:
My prediction -- based on a lot of evidence and clinched by two leaked
Microsoft memos that you really need to read (they're indirectly linked
in my blog entry) -- is that the days of the desktop app are indeed
finally numbered. At best, we will see desktops reduced to being
containers for ultra-thin clients and specialized Internet browsing
tools while *everything else* runs as a (probably ad-supported) Web
service.
Heaven help those of us who compute on trains and airplanes. :)
The observation from my "Beyond the Browser" article still stands:
"Many articles have been published extolling the
virtues of Browser-based applications, but few
(if any) of these were written in one...”
<http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/netapps.html>
As long as folks use local data, there will be desktop apps.
I would encourage Microsoft to go down this proposed road. If they turn
MS Word into a browser service it'll finally kill their stranglehold on
that market, and open it up to word processors that still make sense.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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