jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Aug 14 09:18:10 CDT 2009
Office star web? Horrors! John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com jwcolby wrote: > >I hate to have to be the one to break the bad news to Michael, but for an increasingly large > percentage of users, the desktop application is already dead. > > Hmm... > > Pick any office app... Word, Excel, Power Point, Access etc etc. Not web. > Office Star - Not web > > Email clients - not web > Browsers themselves (though they paint the web) - not web > > Just going through my program list on my computer... > > Streets and Trips - not web (though web equivalents exist) > Ultra Edit > Acoustica Mixcraft (music mixer) > Band-In-A-Box (Music) > Falcon 4.0 (flight simulator) > Morrowind (RPG) > DB Power amp (plays / converts music) > Easy Log (interfaces to temperature sensor) > Empire Deluxe (simulation) > Free Download Manager (robust download manager for the web) > FS1 Flight simulator for RC planes > Hamachi (VPN software) > ITunes > ALL OF THE MICROSOFT STUFF... > MozBackup (Firefox / Thunderbird backup program) > Thunderbird (email client) > > Hmm... OK this is getting boring... > > I have just gone about 1/2rd of the way down the list of all of the programs installed on my > computer and absolutely NONE OF THEM, Not ONE, nada, zipo zilch... is a web based application > (interface rendered by a browser). Several (though still a small minority) use the web in some way, > but NONE (not a SINGLE ONE) actually uses an interface rendered by a browser. > > What I see is that I use a search engine (Google) as an application. I interface to banking and my > credit cards over the web... I suppose those could be considered web based "applications". My son > plays web based games... Other than that most everything that I use on my computer is typical exe / > dll kind of stuff, including viewing movies and listening to movies. Movies are going download of > course but the DISPLAY of the movies is still a program running on my machine, not browser based. > > >I hate to have to be the one to break the bad news to Michael, but for an increasingly large > percentage of users, the desktop application is already dead. > > Am I REALLY in the minority? Sob... > > OK, let's take a poll... anyone who cares to respond do an inventory of the software on your machine > and tell us > > 1) Number of browser rendered apps > 2) Number of browser rendered "apps" you use hosted on the web. I would include search engine and > all the social sites here (facebook etc). IMs themselves tend to be local programs that USE the > web, though not always. > 2) Number of non-browser rendered apps. > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > > Doug Steele wrote: >> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001296.html