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Not true for most users
This may be the case for certain users, but the vast majority of users will still gain significant value from rich desktop applications. Web 2.0, AJAX, and Silverlight is taking the web places its never gone before, thus really improving the end-user experience, but it isn't nearly ready to take the place of desktop applications. You will see desktop applications thrive for at least another 10 years, perhaps longer depending on the evolution of both the desktop and the web.
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Cost of updating have great influence  askov | 12/28/07
I thnk that one sentence sums it all up.  BillyG_n_SC | 01/10/08
RE: How Microsoft (and Apple) will respond to very-low-cost Linux systems  Sabz5150 | 12/28/07
You got that right  Sagax- | 12/31/07
64-bit still a dream  kingttx | 12/31/07
64 bit Linux...  genefitz1976 | 01/03/08
Could be too late  Hans.Weilandt@... | 12/28/07
Not true for most users  Tiggster | 12/28/07
I agree  Arun (sreearun) | 01/01/08
RE: How Microsoft (and Apple) will respond to very-low-cost Linux systems  saysaywhat | 12/28/07
They already have....  mrOSX | 12/28/07
They already have?  saysaywhat | 12/29/07
RE: How Microsoft (and Apple) will respond to very-low-cost Linux systems  joe@... | 12/28/07
Exactly  Tim Patterson | 12/28/07
Ahhh, vaunted Linux...  neoanderthal | 01/02/08
Screams...Not  cornpie | 12/28/07
Research  Tim Patterson | 12/28/07
You are on the boundary. Doesl it move?  gak@... | 01/01/08
Nice fancy speech, but...  genefitz1976 | 01/03/08
Cars, Coffee and TV  andrei.ciocan@... | 01/03/08
RE: How Microsoft (and Apple) will respond to very-low-cost Linux systems  sabbathpriest | 12/28/07
Apple will ignore low cost systems....  bportlock | 12/28/07
Ahh The High Cost Audiophile / Gold Cables Argument  DannyO_0x98 | 12/28/07
Yep! That's the one!  bportlock | 12/28/07
Apple will keep out of the very low cost market.  UrbanBard | 12/28/07
Which is ironic as HELL...  dave.leigh@... | 12/28/07
You are confused.  balsover | 12/29/07
Talk about confused!  dave.leigh@... | 12/29/07
Another Reason For MAC users to consider  register@... | 12/28/07
Two reasons why your argument is flawed  Michael Kelly | 12/28/07
Different people want different things.  UrbanBard | 12/28/07
I agree that most people are non-technical  Michael Kelly | 12/28/07
Doing that would require a more expensive computer  balsover | 12/29/07
They can't ignore it though.  TripleII | 12/29/07
RE: How Microsoft (and Apple) will respond to very-low-cost Linux systems  dope.smugglaz@... | 12/28/07
Message has been deleted.  dope.smugglaz@... | 12/28/07
Low Cost isn't only answer  KenInNJ | 12/28/07
RE: How Microsoft (and Apple) will respond to very-low-cost Linux systems  Elvis1223 | 12/28/07
I'm not that desperate.  Prime Detailer | 12/28/07
but why was that computer there in the first place?  shis-ka-bob | 12/28/07
Ho boy  Elvis1223 | 12/28/07
See, that's a snob talking.  dave.leigh@... | 12/28/07
Reject Dump  storm14k | 12/28/07
deja vu tail fins  reedjjjr | 12/31/07
Or run XP  KTLA | 12/30/07
Those dozens of machines ...  daengbo | 12/31/07
I wish I were so lucky!  kingttx | 12/31/07
Amateur glitz isn't  Rick_R | 12/28/07
Here you go  Elvis1223 | 12/28/07
Well....  TtfnJohn | 12/29/07
The flaw with your logic (and Microsoft's, and Apple's)...  dave.leigh@... | 12/28/07
Nice!  Linux User 147560 | 12/28/07
Excelent!!  pablo Dante | 12/31/07
Not their choice!!!  techboy_z | 12/28/07
talking about eye candy  nrfool | 12/28/07
Yes, Beryl is the WOW, not Vista  Don Collins | 12/28/07
Peeling back the window?!  Tony Agudo | 12/28/07
Window peel back - Beryl + PCLinuxOS  Don Collins | 12/28/07
Try this...  Don Collins | 12/28/07
Ah, I see...  Tony Agudo | 12/28/07
i seem to remember a few years back when walmart tied to sell  SO.CAL Guy | 12/28/07
This time they sold out.  dave.leigh@... | 12/28/07
Learning from the past? Different circumstances?  GuidingLight | 12/28/07
re:Learning from the past? Different circumstances?  n0neXn0ne | 12/28/07
install their previous copy of Windows onto the computers they purchased  Ole Man | 12/28/07
I was asked  GuidingLight | 12/30/07
It's a Linux sale  dave.leigh@... | 12/28/07
But the question is...  Linux User 147560 | 12/28/07
The Year of the Linux Desktop  korlaplankton | 12/28/07
it's just as easy to get and use a linux system as it is to get and use a  Ole Man | 12/28/07
Not a big deal  eb276 | 12/28/07
Threat of lawsuits  DarthRidiculous | 12/28/07
Linux has more eye candy and goodies than I ever use  zaine_ridling | 12/29/07
Disruptive technology  paul_cogito | 12/29/07
High and Low End  ralphellis1@... | 12/29/07
The desktop is so 1990s  Cornhead | 12/29/07
The desktop is so 1990s  Cornhead | 12/29/07
Jumping to conclusions  dave.leigh@... | 12/29/07
Paradigm Shift  dsc68 | 12/30/07
History Repeats  Yagotta B. Kidding | 12/30/07
For those who don't heed it, yes.  dave.leigh@... | 12/30/07
RE: How Microsoft (and Apple) will respond to very-low-cost Linux systems  patricioalba | 12/30/07
become just another player by streamlinin OS and make it cheap/free  killerbunny | 12/30/07
all software should be free...  killerbunny | 12/30/07
Hardware and eye candy  pablo Dante | 12/31/07

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