Rick Langschultz wrote:
My prediction is: binary executable software will no longer exist except for the underlying operating system.
Why?
Instead the desktop will be a
transparent web environment that will load AJAX applications and utilize web services to connect online data to desktop data.
Try writing Starcraft and Firefox in AJAX. I'm sure you'll retract your prediction later on. :)
Also there will be
minimum to no storage locally on the users desktop system, instead there will be online libraries filled with personal user data which will be in XML file formats, or other text-file based formats.
"The network is the computer" concept didn't really take off. And music and images in text format? Why bother? :)
This way a user can
use a thumb print on the computer to access their personal data, and email on any computer in the world as well as in a variety of language formats.
That is my prediction of the future of desktop systems of computer users.
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