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The Blurring Line Between PC and Web

Posted by kdawson on from the battle-for-hearts-and-minds dept.

The NYTimes has a feature about software development systems that move the Web offline and desktop applications online, with a focus on Adobe Air, which will be released tomorrow. The article has quotes from the developer behind Microsoft's Silverlight (he was a colleague at Macromedia of Adobe's Air guy), and from the head of the Mozilla Foundation about their online/offline offering, Prism.

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  1. Laptop anyone by chelsel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "annoyed that he could not get to his PC data when he was traveling"... What about a laptop... the Internet data cloud will not be my primary storage area for many years, if ever... it will be a secondary backup location at best. My primary working data will reside on a fully backed up, as secure as necessary, laptop. First level backup is a self managed RAID NAS (which itself is backed up).

  2. Re:Security nightmare? by eldepeche · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, in fact you're the first person to be concerned about the security of online data storage.

  3. Re:what does AIR/Silverlight offer that is new/bet by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 5, Funny

    what do AIR and Silverlight offer that is better than those?

    Well, they enable lock-in and generate revenue for the companies that own those technologies.

    Oh, wait... You meant for us? Nothing...