Anytime something comes along with this kind of title, all the mindless anti-Mcrosoft web-yappers jump up and down with glee. What a bunch of Horses**t! Microsoft isn't having any nightmares about free online web applications, not by a long shot.Dream on.
Keep your kids home and secure.Kids = datasecure = on your hard drive with good safe back ups.safe back ups = off site, in a bank maybe or your brother house, if you trust him.SO I HAVE TO SAY DITTO...
Open Source's big nightmare: free on-line apps.Free on-line apps may be the only way to really kill Open Source. Take Google for example. As long as it works and it's free (as in beer), who cares about the source code?
The web browser isn't going to replace the need for desktop applications anytime soon. The technology just isn't there, plain and simple. What the web browser might do (and currently is doing) is bite off a chunk of the lightweight desktop application market that caters to the casual user that doesn't need the power of its desktop relative. The article says that the browser vendors will be updating their browsers for newer applications but doesn't mention any concrete technological advances. What exactly is it referring to? CSS3? ECMAScript-4? HTML5? The only one that fits the timetable given in this article would be a new ECMAScript standard, which will be a MUCH needed update to the language and bring it up to where it needs to be to support large-scale client-driven web apps.You can only do so much hackery in the javascript sandbox, and there are tons of things that are flat out impossible. You have no threads, no local persistent storage, no access to the underlying native system, which makes the browser impossible to do any real legwork. I'm not advocating thread support be added to javascript, I'm just pointing out the massive technical limitations present in the sandbox.I think web apps and desktop apps can peacefully co-exist for a long time, and even be mated together using other cool web service technologies. I don't really understand why people want it to be an "either-or" situation.As for this being a threat to Microsoft... Anytime technology evolves a company with stake in an older technology is at risk of losing market share. Some companies recognize market changes and adapt, some don't. As far as I can tell Microsoft is keeping up with the "web game", they have launched quite a few web services over the past few years. Microsoft has been one of the pioneers of web technologies, IE was the one that introduced the API that powers AJAX, and I'm sure they will continue to help steer future web technologies.
duke_nate:***********FTA"Now, Netscape as a Web powerhouse,"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one :-)************Dude, did you RTFA!?! The full quote:"Now, Netscape as a Web powerhouse is gone..."Idiot.
dotnetskyOct 23, 2006
Anytime something comes along with this kind of title, all the mindless anti-Mcrosoft web-yappers jump up and down with glee. What a bunch of Horses**t! Microsoft isn't having any nightmares about free online web applications, not by a long shot.Dream on.
bdpfOct 23, 2006
Keep your kids home and secure.Kids = datasecure = on your hard drive with good safe back ups.safe back ups = off site, in a bank maybe or your brother house, if you trust him.SO I HAVE TO SAY DITTO...
jqp123Oct 23, 2006
Open Source's big nightmare: free on-line apps.Free on-line apps may be the only way to really kill Open Source. Take Google for example. As long as it works and it's free (as in beer), who cares about the source code?
zacmccormickOct 23, 2006
The web browser isn't going to replace the need for desktop applications anytime soon. The technology just isn't there, plain and simple. What the web browser might do (and currently is doing) is bite off a chunk of the lightweight desktop application market that caters to the casual user that doesn't need the power of its desktop relative. The article says that the browser vendors will be updating their browsers for newer applications but doesn't mention any concrete technological advances. What exactly is it referring to? CSS3? ECMAScript-4? HTML5? The only one that fits the timetable given in this article would be a new ECMAScript standard, which will be a MUCH needed update to the language and bring it up to where it needs to be to support large-scale client-driven web apps.You can only do so much hackery in the javascript sandbox, and there are tons of things that are flat out impossible. You have no threads, no local persistent storage, no access to the underlying native system, which makes the browser impossible to do any real legwork. I'm not advocating thread support be added to javascript, I'm just pointing out the massive technical limitations present in the sandbox.I think web apps and desktop apps can peacefully co-exist for a long time, and even be mated together using other cool web service technologies. I don't really understand why people want it to be an "either-or" situation.As for this being a threat to Microsoft... Anytime technology evolves a company with stake in an older technology is at risk of losing market share. Some companies recognize market changes and adapt, some don't. As far as I can tell Microsoft is keeping up with the "web game", they have launched quite a few web services over the past few years. Microsoft has been one of the pioneers of web technologies, IE was the one that introduced the API that powers AJAX, and I'm sure they will continue to help steer future web technologies.
gojedaOct 25, 2006
Why use a web desktop when I already have my own on my PC?
pp7kOct 25, 2006
duke_nate:***********FTA"Now, Netscape as a Web powerhouse,"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one :-)************Dude, did you RTFA!?! The full quote:"Now, Netscape as a Web powerhouse is gone..."Idiot.