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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (85614)	1/6/2000 4:36:00 PM
From: Greater Fool	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572686

>>Do you have some ideas as to what it would look like? I have no idea of the specifics. I'm just responding to rumblings along these lines I've heard elsewhere and to my own and observed discontent with the unreliability of computers and software. For example, why don't we run document programs from a web site? Wouldn't companies' PC support costs be a heck of a lot lower if you just went to a web site whose initial view was of a document window? It's already happened to a certain extent with calendar and address book programs, as well as email. I use Yahoo's email, one result being that I can access my email from any computer with a web browser instead of needing one that has 90MB of Microsoft Outlook installed. Smaller information appliances will drive much of this change, and overall will make the processor much less important. It's interesting how fast things change -- I thought Larry Ellison was a complete idiot when he unveiled his network PC (?) a few years back. I still think he's an idiot, but after struggling with installing applications on my computer, and seeing hapless techs installing software after software on my work computer, I'm thinking his ideas have merit.