Is the desktop dying?
It began as a trickle of statements that the Web would replace the desktop. The browser would be the platform, some began to say. Now more and more voices are joining that chorus. Even Microsoft has a major program of Web applications. Is the desktop really going to be replaced by the “cloud”? No one knows for sure where this will all go but for your weekend reading here’s a selection of recent reports on the subject:
- Dear desktop, welcome back
- We begin with a post by Ryan Stewart, who outlines why he thinks that the desktop is alive and well.
- Microsoft, Apple, and the death of the desktop
- Next, we have a rebuttal by Ed Burnette who says why he thinks that the browser is the new desktop.
- Squaring the cloud
- Here we have a post by Phil Wainwright, who says that a new program from Amazon makes hosting your application on the Web much easier.
- Microsoft readies ‘Albany’ subscription trial for consumers
- Mary Jo Foley reports on one of Microsoft’s efforts at
“cloud”subscription applications. - Three Certain Things: Death, Taxes and the Shift to the Web
- All of the preceding links are from ZDNet but here’s one from the Bits blog at the New York Times. It reports that this year more people did their income tax with the online software from Turbotax than with the desktop version. Also more people are filing electronically every year. Thus it would seem that fear of “cloud” security does not seem to be as big an issue as might have been thought.
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