____/ Mark Kent on Friday 25 April 2008 15:00 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Thin-Clients Revisited
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The death of the PC is predicted once again. Of course I will be wrong like
>>| all the others before me. Personal Computing is so seductive that it will
>>| morph into ultra-cheap low-powered devices that hybridise the web
>>| thin-client with the personal device. Even Dell are aiming to release a sub
>>| $100 Linux (Ubuntu?) notebook. What I can say, however, is that the day of
>>| the big beige/black box is stone dead maybe it will take a major operating
>>| system vendor with it.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/thin-clients-revisited.html
>>
>
> I agree entirely... the desktop is very very dead, long live the
> appliance and the mobile device.
These are still related. The problem here is Vista, not Windows, but Microsoft
phases out the legacy, which is foolish.
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