Gaming Midori

[jesterscourt]

Cloud computing is a very interesting concept, but as others have noted, the penetration of broadband isn't where it needs to be to make this a super sound idea. Maybe in a decade.

 

[phoood]

I believe that one day Internet will get so fast that we won't need to store data with us anymore.. we'll just have a little terminal at home and do everything remotely.. that's my prediction for 20 or 30 years in the future

I'm sure that Microsoft and all the big companies are already looking at this possibility and working with it, anyway, I don't see something like this coming so soon.. the next MS OS will certainly rely a lot on Internet connection but I don't think it's viable to do something 100% online right now.

One more step to Ghost in the Shell

So basically someone read a book on thin clients and decided to copy it.

Next.

QUOTE(fischju @ Aug 4 2008, 05:34 PM)

One more step to Ghost in the Shell

 

[FaRReR]

I'm not dying until Microsoft is cool.

Does that mean I'm immortal?

 

[Mewgia]

I saw this on G4tv.com a couple of minutes ago. Sounds interesting. I bet everyone is going to reply "this is what vista should have been."

this is what vista should have been

just kidding, it sounds like a terrible idea.

 

[Jiggah]

It's a fantastic idea if you apply it to say a corporate structure, which I bet will be the aim of the OS. For home use though, it becomes inefficient. I do like the modular idea though for both a corporate side (which I'm pretty sure they are already doing with the Server series) and home use, since that frees up a lot of space and minimizes resource taken.

 

[FAST6191]

It's a fantastic idea if you apply it to say a corporate structure, which I bet will be the aim of the OS. For home use though, it becomes inefficient. I do like the modular idea though for both a corporate side (which I'm pretty sure they are already doing with the Server series) and home use, since that frees up a lot of space and minimizes resource taken.

It already exists, the concept of "streaming" resources (as in whole applications) across a network to a client computer (which is known as a thin client because it has nothing but a stripped down OS) has been done for many many years (schools often do it so you may well have seen it there and many industrial machines also do it also perhaps in not quite such an obvious way).

The thing is there are multiple free operating systems now with office+internet+network software whose entire iso clocks perhaps a mornings bandwidth in this situation, anyone who uses anything more than that (CAD, graphic design, multimedia, high end programming.....) is going to have decent workstation anyhow (maybe with an on site activation server for the more tricky applications).

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

This is what vista should have been

Beat me to it...

Well... Maybe this one won't suck.
but I don't like the idea that people can hack my PC, even when its offline...
I've already been hacked before. About a month after I got the PC, and an hour before I deleted Internet Exploiter and started using Mozilla firefox. Also they could update my PC, NO THANKYOU! IF I WANTED SPAM, I'D GET WAREZ WITH THEM!

 

[Seyiji]

Beat me to it...

Well... Maybe this one won't suck.
but I don't like the idea that people can hack my PC, even when its offline...
I've already been hacked before. About a month after I got the PC, and an hour before I deleted Internet Exploiter and started using Mozilla firefox. Also they could update my PC, NO THANKYOU! IF I WANTED SPAM, I'D GET WAREZ WITH THEM!

Oh god my brain hurts now