is this the future of the PC

http://slate.com/id/21​44896
Many have spoken and discussed this idea - google has released an office suite on line
Oracle always talked about thin client for years

For a sneak peek at the future of computing, go to YouOS https://www.youos.com/ and click "Try a Demo." Your browser window turns into a desktop of its own, with sub-windows for e-mail, chat, and Web browsing. There are also links on the YouOS desktop for a sticky-notes program and a rich-text editor. But these programs aren't on your hard drive—they're running somewhere in the vast unknown Internet.

Not sure if it will "be" the future, but might be in our future.

Interesting. I don't think that this exactly is the future, but something similar is very likely.

stacie

Thin client and hosted systems are mainstream with UK corporates and SME's. Nothing really new in what is being touted there, other than trying to make it home user friendly.

Wasn't ready for prime-time about 10 years ago... I believe it was called the "Net PC" concept then (not the same as a corporate network setup). (Was Oracle behind the idea for the home user too?) Still don't believe it will fly for most applications... people just like to have "stuff" on their own PC.

Yes, we have thin clients all over the college where I teach.

I hope the future has something a little better for us...

If the bloated office suites would simply fine tune the code.. and ditch the 90% of it that no one uses, then you'd have an app that fits on a few floppies again. Then who'd care if it was thin client or installed?

I remember in highscool (mid 90s) when we first got IBM PC's (big step up from BBC's) and everything was hosted on the net work, each PC just had DOS running on it, and that was it.

I don't know its the future, or a step backwards, to something well proven in the past.