What Comes After the Windows Era?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-comes-after-windows-era

by edw519 • 18 years ago

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globalrev2• 18 years ago

ashleyw• 18 years ago

Please dont. :)

sysop073• 18 years ago

Cheering

axod3• 18 years ago

It's already arrived. The "I don't care what OS you have, as long as you have a reasonable browser" era. The browser is the new windows.

duane2• 18 years ago

Hah. Can you...

- Play your music online?

- Play your video game online?

- Type papers online? And no, google apps don't quite cut it :P

- Watch a dvd online?

- Do your taxes (in a Turbotax) fashion online?

Well, none of the above, really. So, whoops! Guess the browser isn't the next operating system!

nailer• 18 years ago

> Play your music online?

Yeah, provided you have the bandwidth. If you don't, any OS has music management software.

> Play your video game online?

You got me there - not yet. Half life doesn't work in Flash.

> Type papers online? And no, google apps don't quite cut it :P

You can, but if you don't want to, any OS has productivity software.

> Watch a dvd online?

Yes.

> Do your taxes (in a Turbotax) fashion online?

Yes.

axod3• 18 years ago

There are about a billion music playing websites that have sprung up in the last few months.

Video games, I've not been a PC gamer for a long time, so a wii makes sense for that, although there are a few good games being written for the browser.

Google apps works well enough...

Sure you can watch DVDs online... I watch TV shows etc in my browser.

Seriously, for most people there is no need for desktop apps anymore.

weegee2• 18 years ago

a great article. the OS is a thing of the past. Our 4 year old Windows PC takes about 2-3 minutes to boot up and allow Firefox to browse. It's too long. I'm NOT willing to re-load everything, that would take an entire DAY. My Mac takes half the time to boot. Interesting that they say Apple is the one to beat, I agree. Having an "instant-on" computer would be a great thing, even waking up my MacBook when I get home takes maybe 15-20 seconds to browse. But Windows is a dinosaur these days. It's just been drug into the ground and bled dry of it's useful life.

gaius2• 18 years ago

Interesting that they say Apple is the one to beat

Well, no, it's obvious really. OSX is ultimate proof that you can take Unix (BSD in this case) and put an interface on it that ESR's Aunt Tillie can use. The Linux community has invested squillions of hours in improving the desktop and given it away for free, and people would still rather spend $$$ on OSX. Why do you suppose that is?

weegee2• 18 years ago

good question. maybe most people don't know what Linux is because they don't have a shiny music player. ;-)

jodrellblank• 18 years ago

They have collectively invested squillions of hours, but I question whether they have done so "improving" the desktop.

My stock answer to this, and I am picking on them somewhat unfairly but it feels representative enough to make a point, is Linspire. "Come on baby, run Linspire" they sang at me. "We have photo organisers and music players" they advertised.

And showed a picture of LSongs Media Player.

http://media.linspire.com/mailers/mm/lsongs-shot.jpg

Need I say more? Is anything else needed to tell you why people are willing to spend $$$ on OSX?

trezor• 18 years ago

While I obviously agree that in the age of the internet, what OS you run becomes less important, this article is simply too biased to be readable.

I'm sure the Linux fanboys will love it though. I could almost hear the author cheering "Linux! Linux!" in the background while I was trying to get trough it.

globalrev2• 18 years ago

I would like something like a splashtop and lets me run emacs+whatever language I'm using to run via the browser.

Distributed emacs, business idea?

Hexstream• 18 years ago

I like how the favicon distracts me every 5 seconds. Classy.

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