In the article "Death to the Desktop! Long Live the Cloud!" writer Ken Hess says: "...cloud computing will replace our fat, bloated, virus-riddled, failure-prone desktop with something far more agile and elegant: A lightweight browser-based system."
Check out his earlier article, "Whose Platform is it, Anyway?" And take a look at the comments following the articles, and the LXer comments that were prompted by the "Death to the Desktop..." article.
Why can't we have both cloud computing and desktop computing?
Well, we do.
And we'll continue to have both. Mr. Hess is wrong. Or, at least, not completely right. (He knows how to write a provocative article, though.)
I see myself using a combination of cloud computing and desktop computing, depending on the situation, depending on what works best for me. I think that the fact is that most of us are doing the same thing right now, and have been for some time, and will continue to do so.
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