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Red Hat Develops Online Desktop

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hope-your-isp-is-reliable dept.

pete314 writes "Red Hat announced this week at their San Diego Red Hat Summit that they are planning to compete with Microsoft on the desktop by building an 'online desktop' that will integrate local data with online services. Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens argued that: 'To user the desktop metaphor is dead. We don't believe that recreating a Windows paradigm in an open source model will do anything to advance the productivity in the life of users.'"

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  1. Doesn't seem to slow them down any... by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

    suggests to me that online applications would need to have similar or identical security access to locally installed applications. This seems, uh... possibly problematic.
    Oh, come on ... Microsoft's been doing that for years!

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  2. Emerging markets... by MatrixCubed · · Score: 5, Funny

    FTFA: "The Linux desktop market has been limited to single function devices such as cash registers and applications in emerging markets." I've heard this term 'emerging markets' for so long now, you'd think they'd have emerged by now...