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I think a couple of you have hit the "Nail on the head." It has to be easy to use, and that is what Microsoft has done (Apple also), made it easy to use. This "Easy" is what the large corporations want. They are looking for a way to keep the training levels at the lowest possible point. This "Easy" is what the average computer user is looking for, not something that requires them to read some long drawn out instruction. Because of this need for things to be easy is why Linux will not make it in the world of big business.
As to Cloud Computing; do we really thing a large corporation is going to put all it marbles on the internet. Come on, that is just not going to happen. If you think so just look at the problems all the large E-Mail providers have with hackers. Not sure about all of you, albeit it will be a cold day in you know where before I would trust any thing of mine to a web site.
I agree Lee...Cloud Computing is an innovative concept that will hopefully gain some use in the market but I highly doubt that it is "the future". There are many factors (security, accessbility, etc) that make Cloud Computing not as favorable as most see it.
Time will tell but to tell time right now would be to say that Could Computing is not the best leading innovation going 2010 and beyond
The PC is the new thing - cloud computing is nothing new. Only the network connection has changed. Dumb terminals are in everyones's future.
I hope not. I want complete control over what goes on my computer.
Your network is the cloud.
Your daughter's dumb terminal is at her school/dorm room.
If I am the admin, I like the cloud. If I am the consumer, I want my PC.
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