Re: Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later
Date	2014-04-12 15:13 +0000
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Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> Wrote in message:
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> 
>> Title: 'The browser is the operating system' 10 years on on mobile
>> Author: Jean-Louis Gass�e
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Of Apple and Be Inc. fame!
> 
> -- 
>> cat /etc/slackware-version && uname -mprs
> Slackware 14.0
> Linux 3.12.0-dn i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36
> 

Yep, Jean-Louis seems to be a permanent guest journalist these
 days.  Bit of a step down from former positions, if you ask me. 
 They were right, of course: we're all headed to a browser-rich
 world, and its name is probably "Chrome" unless someone provides
 an alternative.  In an alternate universe I'd be looking to
 Microsoft to provide a competing solution: they're clearly rich
 enough in money and technical staff to be able to take on a
 challenge like this.  Too bad under Ballmer they were focused
 only on preserving the Office/Win monopoly, and this clearly
 would take a huge wooden stake and drive it through that
 monopoly's heart.

Sad though when you think about how many orders of magnitude
 greater resources are required in order to accomplish things that
 were basically accomplished on "primitive" (I use the word tongue
 in cheek) time-sharing systems of the 1970s.  Imagine how many
 layers of abstraction go into a Word Processor running on
 Javascript, for example.

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Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-10 09:05 +0000
  Re: Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-04-11 09:37 +0200
    Re: Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-12 15:13 +0000

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