Browser replaces OS

fogread verticle, [Would this make any sense?:]

I do agree that New IntelAIgents are missing from the equation too. CyberIntelAIgently Designed Human Beings

You cloud computing bashers - think on this. The ASP business model is alive and well! Any corporation with several employees has it's own IT infrastructure. CAD and other software run from corporate servers. Data lives on network storage arrays. In such environments PC workstations are overkill. Many corporations use ASPs and leased hardware to eliminate IT departments and to expense rather than capitalize hardware and software. The public can't expense PCs but vast sums can be extracted from them by selling them on the concept of instant-on, worry free, porn, email, porn, web surfing, porn, music, porn, videos, porn, chat, and did I already mention porn? The plebs don't like bandwidth lost for automatic OS patching and anti viri updates. They complain about the cost and inconvenience of lugging PCs to repair shops when malware or a failed hardware bit deprives them of their porn. Already, they've been conditioned to believe that web email protects them from much malware. The exorbitant cost of Apples and those Microsoft operating systems that need constant updates are but two other ingenious mechanisms that have completed conditioning the plebs to be ready for cloud computing. The time to take advantage of this situation is now! Anybody want to help me set up an IPO for the first people's world wide cloud computing ASP?

At work, we got terminal service which runs Windows Server 2003 over internet explorer.
This is news??? I thought it was pathetic.
And why we got that? Cuz we got rejects who cannot manage a c: drive.

The browser does not "replace" the OS though. It replaces conventional graphical shells, and there's an important difference. For one thing all the usual OS/Kernel licensing issues still apply.

Vista - the opposite to fast and light OS's.

MS might have fear but Netscape chanted it that they will make OS irrelevant:

read this jaw droping para, rare on internet ... i remeber this para since some 8 years, had to dig the net to quote proof here.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5035167.html
"As Netscape became not only the dominant Windows browser but also the dominant cross-platform browser, the company began planning to extend its model to become more than just the browser. In fact, Marc Andreeson made the bold prediction that one day Netscape would replace Windows as the default user interface. His prediction wasn’t far off. If Netscape could run on all platforms and all applications became Web applications, Windows would be irrelevant. In fact, Netscape could become the default shell for any operating system including Windows and any derivative of UNIX. Unfortunately for Netscape, Microsoft came to the same conclusion."

Would this make any money?:
publications subscriptions via cloud computing? maybe a USB satellite receiver. Would transmitting via the cloud make environmental governance of the content something akin to specialised licenced presentation clients. Billboard's hawtest charts. Essentially rebranding dumb terminals into streamed storage devices for books, etc. Fee for service libraries on "phone-home" re-usable devices, which would probably be lite and portable, and possibly utilising volumetric display device like technology for interacting virtual cloud realities. Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinfinity where you interface deadly patent trolls and changing rules of the game steadily being morphed by an autonomous political and economic collective hybrid system of intergovernmentalism and supranationalism on a quantised physical magnitude, as angular momentum, heretofore never conceived in the minds of mere under Toffs. "I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!"__ The cluod is reality about taking one-dimensional people from the tabloids and showing what they are really like: Presumably Inquirerior - CCTV stereotypes -: the busty pin-ups cocktails, the DJ, the tough sportsman shooters, the pretty boy, the Welsh Taffydd (eh?), the Aberdonian (seen it! dun that!), a Maharatio of something curry, the dodgy guesser, Dr. Livingstone II, Chips!, Hoover, and of course, Drashek. I know I missed somebody, but you'll know who you are, as you do. God save the cheerleader! Get back to me after the first of the first of the new year. Bwahaha. No Really. Why take a sludge report to kill a fly? Swat the bird hard with your badminton racquet. Blimey! [Piranga Olivacea] What's commonly known as your hooded tanager... And wally off here in the wiles of Foggerton. Off you go you little chirpi chanteusi. Funkin Pro: That's what they love to drink it every day. Ole Laird And go stirruh. I calls it a Carla Bruni. She calls it so cozy. Cheers!

Does anyone really think that AutoCAD or PhotoShop or complex engineering tools will be run over the Internet?

The cloud based thin client assumes broad band internet access is always available. If your computing is dependent on the web and your web connection goes down for one reason or another then your thin client is no longer functional. There will always be thin client and/or cloud based systems, but I will never be dependent on them. A full fledged computer that functions whether on the web or not, is what I need. No thanks mate. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have nothing to worry about at all.

Pundits have been discussing thin client computing since 1996. It isn't going to happen for the consumer or businesses. Get over it. You want a cloud based thin client, get one. I'm sticking with some form of PC with local storage, OS and applications. The bait and switch trick to sell expensive server hardware and software to manage this thin client nonsense hasn't taken over yet for a reason.