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Landscape Is Changing For Microsoft and Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the also-sandwiches-are-delicious dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes "John Milan, Senior Software Architect and founder of TeamDirection, writes about the convergence of Web and Desktop. He argues that Microsoft and Google are focusing so much on each other, that both will either fail to notice the landscape is changing underfoot — or will be unable to adapt quickly enough. The article concludes that the days of purely desktop-based applications are clearly numbered, but so are the days of exclusively web-based apps. Both Microsoft and Google are racing toward a happy medium. However, they aren't the only players in town, not by a long shot. Both Mozilla and Adobe are well positioned to take advantage of desktop and web convergence."

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  1. Browser OS by cucucu · · Score: 2, Funny

    As computer power increases, everything will be inside your browser.
    Now we are starting to have Office Apps in the browser.
    In the near future all your OS will be in your browser/server.
    Your good old Desktop OS will be just to start your browser.

    1. Re:Browser OS by daranz · · Score: 4, Funny

      In the future, all browsers will be a webapps! Then, the Internet will collapse because of the resulting paradox.

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      This is a sig. It is appended to the end of comments I post.
  2. The Network *is* The Computer by Coco+Lopez · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm Scott McNealy, and I approve this message... D'oh!

  3. Re:Heard it All Before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    • This will be the year of Linux on the desktop
    • *BSD is dead
    • Microsoft/Google/Oracle/IBM are dead
  4. Obligatory by Vulcann · · Score: 1, Funny
    Convergence between the web and the desktop ... welll

    • But ...will it run Linux
    • Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
    • All your desktops are belong to us
    • In Soviet Russia, the web owns you.
    There ... now we can get along with all the real discussions!