Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Marc Andreessen: 'the browser is the OS', 10 years later Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:13:58 +0000 (GMT+00:00) Organization: news.solani.org Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: solani.org 1397315645 480 eJwNysERwDAIA7CVIDYOGactsP8IzemrgFzfpkKMuSrRKWE6iSxvwLj52Krym9sOIbMXM6fWDwcfEEE= (12 Apr 2014 15:14:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:14:05 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: eJwFwQERADEIAzBLsLbwyGFw8y/hEyE8JhkK6ukRuVXwYLp1rV/w8LiSZt1Htwu1X2M0Nf0D9CEQMw== X-Newsreader: PiaoHong.NewsGroup.Client.VIP:1.52 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NvoVmTBririVqOknbjwDY7jpDCQ= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXUChdz0GU/09YAs+VzUhkYDDmElmG1S275+PDOA7q9Q3RtCtdY2LNwf4BEdgQ4Q== Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2369 Dario Niedermann Wrote in message: > RS Wood 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.