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From: QwikSand	12/26/2004 11:21:43 PM
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NB: When the WSJ writes about the potential comeback of thin clients, they describe PC's devolving into thin clients. They still paint SunRays only as part of a failed experiment. It would be trivial for MSFT to start supplying a thin-client O/S to telecom companies for the bundled broadband thin client that Sun salivates over in its fantasies. If that particular paradigm really shifts, no doubt MSFT will be the main beneficiary on the client side. All they have to do is rip out a few hundred megabytes of BSOD's and security holes...and they've certainly already done it. I think SunRay, no matter how cool it may be, is basically a game Sun can never win. --QS Subscription required. online.wsj.com PORTALS Dumber PCs That Use The Net for Processing, Storage Get Hot -- Again By KEVIN J. DELANEY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 27, 2004 Computers with bells, whistles and multiple-gigahertz processors landed under Christmas trees across the country this past weekend. But much of that computing firepower is increasingly irrelevant in a broadband, Web-enabled world. Nowadays, consumers can do much of their computing without relying on their own PCs for a lot of processing or storage. Millions of Americans already use free Web-based e-mail and online photo services. Powerful servers and massive hard drives owned by the likes of Yahoo and Ofoto store the e-mails and photos and run the applications that consumers use to manage them. The user's PC needs little more than a Web browser and a display. Now some tech companies and entrepreneurs are trying to expand that model to allow people to do more things with less computer. ( . . . )

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