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Landscape Is Changing For Microsoft and Google
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."
As computer power increases, everything will be inside your browser.
Yes, because of course we need to waste all that computer power on the desktop by just running a browser, and then sell hundreds of expensive mainframes^H^H^H servers to do the real processing.
Than, after a few years, someone will come up with the revolutionary idea of a "personal computer", and we'll go round the loop again.