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PG: The other road ahead, September 2001 The whole idea of "your computer" is going away, and being replaced with "your data." You should be able to get at you
by manish 16y ago
PG: The other road ahead, September 2001
The whole idea of "your computer" is going away, and being replaced with "your data." You should be able to get at your data from any computer. Or rather, any client, and a client doesn't have to be a computer.
- buro9 16y agoJohn Gage: "The network is the computer", 1984 There's not really much more to be said than that. Most people here are aware of the competing visions of that time, and Microsoft never quite got it as their business model depended on (depends on) a computer on every desk. Apple never quite got it either (though, a little more now). Sun got it (obviously). Google got it even more.
- KERMIT 16y agoNo, I think Microsoft actually got it correct. It's a much better user experience to have usable applications running on a real computer, than it is to have half-baked web "applications" running on some remote "Cloud".