* Posts by Josh Rhoderick

2 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009

Google's vanity OS is Microsoft's dream

Josh Rhoderick

Are you serious?

Most people don't do heavy video or image editing on their computers anyway. Cloud-based computing is more than sufficient for 90% of those people who do nothing but use Facebook. If you think this form of computing is going nowhere, then you're just as short-sighted as those people who claimed that digital music was a fad.

And Linux is just the damn kernel. Those apps you're whining about are part of a Linux-based desktop environment. They almost certainly will not be included with anything Google offers.

The Sun shines out of certified Java programmers

Josh Rhoderick

huh?

I don't think they're talking about AJAX enhanced web interfaces in this article, but web services: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_services