a google or Msoft futuer - u decide

[erlyrisa]

What kind of information age will you be vying for...

A google one:

Personal info is kept online, your End User device is nothing more than a glorified workstation.

A Microsoft one: (based on .net)

Info is kept locally (Preferentially) , your Device is a P2P capable communication tool, email is dead and all communication occurs via .net compatible channels.

[presbp]

I.. don't..know..?

[Adamant1988]

This thread so fails.

Those companies (while influential) do not necessarily control the Internet, and Google most certainly does not control my computer.

[erlyrisa]

Although Google, Msoft and Yeah alright Yahoo don't CONTROL the internet, the internet seems to be transitioning.

-Msofts .net3 and higher, with WPF 'everywhere' may see a change in the way the typical web portal is delivered. - google would have to change thier spidering techniques (although it's not like is anything brain numbingly hard todo google has based itself centric to HTML and the way it can read generated webcontent)

-Google seems to have stuck with DHTML, seeing as it is the fastest method of UI on the average desktop, but recently have decided to join forces with Mozilla and Adobe, probably to produce the next type of web-authoring tool.

,msoft hasn't been server centric, they are able to deploy to brand new computers, gaining customers and customer loyalty just by being 'th only OS'

.Google has had some luck deploying software to the end user Via the net. Although still a bit finicky, it may get better - it's philosophy though is to keep data on the server.


---Seems like no-one really cares though - wether they want thier info held by a large server or kept to themselves and maybe 'monitored' instead.

- i don't expect a reply - just thought i'd clear up the thread .

[23meg]

It's very hard to predict past the next few years, but if I had to, I'd be inclined to say neither model, nor another different model, will ultimately win out. There will be multiple models in competitive coexistence.

[Adamant1988]

Although Google, Msoft and Yeah alright Yahoo don't CONTROL the internet, the internet seems to be transitioning.

-Msofts .net3 and higher, with WPF 'everywhere' may see a change in the way the typical web portal is delivered. - google would have to change thier spidering techniques (although it's not like is anything brain numbingly hard todo google has based itself centric to HTML and the way it can read generated webcontent)

-Google seems to have stuck with DHTML, seeing as it is the fastest method of UI on the average desktop, but recently have decided to join forces with Mozilla and Adobe, probably to produce the next type of web-authoring tool.

,msoft hasn't been server centric, they are able to deploy to brand new computers, gaining customers and customer loyalty just by being 'th only OS'

.Google has had some luck deploying software to the end user Via the net. Although still a bit finicky, it may get better - it's philosophy though is to keep data on the server.


---Seems like no-one really cares though - wether they want thier info held by a large server or kept to themselves and maybe 'monitored' instead.

- i don't expect a reply - just thought i'd clear up the thread .

Or maybe we're not all paranoid about "big brother"?

[Kateikyoushi]

Neither is going to be dominant like MS on the OS front and there will be plenty of other providers not just these, you can keep your files online decentralised with several providers for example etc, if you worry.

[23meg]

Or maybe we're not all paranoid about "big brother"?That's the case, no doubt about it.

[erlyrisa]

Alright maybe i'm paranoid...

but it will be interesting how many webauthors out there drop thier current knowledge and transition to using Expression studio.

or how quickly other frameworks may come into play, or whether most people will just stick to doing it the 'hard way' through ajax and the typical browser framework.


-the only reason i post such microsoft propoganda, is that i don't see any-one else doing what they are doing (other than sun with java- but that never really took off)