>>>>>>I wasn't saying Google or anyone else will kill the PC. I was saying software will continue to migrate from desktop apps to online apps. Let's touch base on this in 10 years and see ;-) Right here on the UT if it's still around. (OMG, the UT is an online app already!!! lol)
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>>>>>>>So do we think Google will be more successful at killing the PC than Sun Microsystems was? We'll have to look back at this thread in another 10 years. As I sit here on my very fat client writing this reply.. lol
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>>>>>>>>>>Significant and going up is my guess. Hence the success of netbooks.
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>>>>>>>>>I don't use a netbook... but does that mean the users are using Cloud apps versus installed apps on the hard-drive?
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>>>>>>>>No, but it probably means mostly if not exclusively the internet rather than desktop apps. I expect all types of online apps, including Cloud, to continue displacing traditional desktop apps.
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>>>>>I read that Chrome is based on Linux. If that is the case, will our EXEs execute in Chrome?
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>>>>What EXEs? We will execute on a web site. It's up to them what's behind the curtains.
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>>>Not the Chrome browser. Google's new OS
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>>I know the new product is an OS. And I think users will primarily be running web apps on that OS, too.
>Okay - Next time you talk to Google tell them I want apps that run independantly on my machine.
What kind of machine would you like? How about a nice System 370? ;-)
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