Alan Bourke wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:40:42 -0600, "Leland F. Jackson, CPA" > <[email protected]> said: > >> Below is an interesting article titled "Are operating systems doomed?". >> Microsoft's dominance on the desktop should steadily diminish as the >> internet becomes the new OS, and emphasis switches from the OS to the >> application. >> > > Meh. The internet will need to be much more resilient and less 'wild > west' before that ever happens. >
A computers will always need an OS to manage it hardware and applications, whether it's a Dell, a Sun SPARC, a Linux white box, a microwave oven, a cell phone, a router, etc, but applications are becoming independent of the OS. Microsoft's model for growth and control of the market has been to make its suite of very popular applications dependent on its Windows OS. In the sense that applications are becoming more and more OS agnostic/independent, and are designed to run over the internet, which includes the infrastructure that ties all the computers and OS(s) into one big network, it seems to me the internet can be seen as the new OS, and this is what I meant when I said the internet is the new OS. The internet is a creation of evolution, much like life on earth today is a product of evolution. The first living cell appeared millions of years ago. The cell learned how to divided, multiply and created major organs that eventually became the plant and animal we see today, including humans. When looking at the big picture we should focus on the higher organism, not the cells or organs from which they are made, so in the big picture of things, it seems to me we should view the internet as the new OS, Regards, LelandJ --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
