On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > 1) Prevents piracy.
This is only an issue if your business model is one of stealing your customer's data, and holding it hostage. If your business model is not based on violating the Ten Commandments (or ten suggestions, if you want the literal translation from Hebrew), then piracy is a non-issue. > 2) You always have the lastest version without downloading and installing > updates. Sometimes the latest version does not provide the same degree of functionality as the earlier version does. > 3) You don't have to wait for it to come out on CD. Irrelevant. CDs are simply one of half a dozen ways of delivering software. > 4) You can access your files and the software from any computer in the world > with an internet connection. And so can the rest of the world. This can have major, serious, negative consequences. > You see by having more and more software online your computer's operating system will not need to be so elaborate. The OS might not need to be so elaborate, but the software on one's system will have to be. Try using Thinkpad, when your web browser is Lynx. On second thoughts, if your O/S is CP/M, could you log into Yahoo? > develop operating systems other them MS Windows that will simply allow our There are at least 100 operating systems for Intel chips. Probably more. Microsoft's dominance in the software market has been due to their criminal behavior. (They have been convicted of violating laws in three continents.) Then there is the study the Microsoft appears to have paid for, that indicated that Microsoft was not only losing market share, but had lost both the O/S wars, and the office suite wars. > computer will not need to have a superfast processor, a lot of memory, or > even a big hard drive. Thin clients have their place. However, to expect everything to be a thin client is akin to expecting that everybody will drive a Honda Civic. > happen is the hard drive is going to disappear. Which explains why hard drive sizes increase every six or so months. Hard drives are not going to go away any time soon. >Windows (or another operating system) will be installed on a USB flash drive or actually installed in a memory module on the motherboard. You are roughly thirty years behind the times. (Or did you not know that the first chips to be shipped with a built in O/S shipped that long ago?) >Windows will not need to load Linux based devices have had this functionality for almost a decade. Of course, you probably didn't know that you were using a Linux device. > I know this because I've been in the computer field for 10 years. But did you learn anything in those ten years? >From your message, I suspect not. > I'm telling you this is the way the industry is going. It is the way Microsoft wants the world to go. It isn't necessarily where the rest of the IT industry is going. >All software will be online in the next few years. More probable is that there will be a market split: * Web based software, for "quick and dirty" work; * Hard drive based software, for serious work; > It's not my doing, it's the software manufacturers doing. The "driving force" is hardware manufacturers, not software developers. >Open Office is behind the times by not being available online. OOo will serve the needs of those who do serious work. Google Office, ThinkPad, and the like will serve the needs of those who need something "quick and dirty". xan jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
