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Sunday, May 11, 2008 --- 88 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Basementorg/~3/284647243/the_utility_computing_my
| So here's the crux of the utlity computing mantra: all that processing power and hard drive space on your desk isn't needed for a great majority of applications. Instead, we'll have big, huge datacenters serve up applications over the web that help you get your work done. You'll pay either a subscription fee or stare at ads to subsidize their existence. No more $199 for a box with a CD in it. The days of downloading, unzipping, installing and and then "loading" software are numbered. Instead, we simply visit a URL and bam...instant application and away we go. So watch out Microsoft and Intel, we don't need kick ass PC's anymore. Watch out Seagate and Maxtor, we don't need your hard drives anymore. We just need a thin client good enough to run a browser. The revolution has begun. Right? Wrong. Anyone that's messed with web-based word processors like Zoho Writer or Google Documents knows that they're nowhere near as impressive as their desktop counterparts like Microsoft Word. They lack the responsiveness and fidelity and are short of a multitude of features. We're ok with it in some cases because it's damn convenient, Still, web applications have come a really long way. They're getting better and better. If you want to see the future, check out Adobe's Buzzword . It's a very impressive, Flash-based word processor that gives anything you'd install on your desktop a run for its money and it requires you to just visi ... |
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