[kwlug-disc] Linuxaria: Open Source Has Taken over the Software Industry

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> From: Russell McOrmond <russellmcormond at gmail.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 10:15 AM
>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Linuxaria: Open Source Has Taken over the Software    Industry
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>On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
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>Wait, what?
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>>https://linuxaria.com/article/how-linux-has-advanced-computer-technology-and-everyone-wins-as-a-result
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>>> Windows 10 will be the last desktop version of the operating system
>>> that once gave Microsoft dominance in the PC software market. After
>>> that, Windows will be offered on a subscription basis and run from
>>> the cloud, but this will not be a Microsoft-exclusive cloud.
>>> Internally, Windows will be virtualized within software containers
>>> running on Ubuntu.
>>
>>I understand this to mean that the desktop OS distributed by Microsoft
>>will be Ubuntu, running a VM that runs Windows from The Cloud.  Am I
>>just insufficiently caffeinated?
>>
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>  I would take this to be that Windows 10 is their last *desktop* operating system, and that they realize that the devices in people's possession will be running a mobile operating system (Like ChromeOS or Android, with Google leading the way in the new market).
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>  This means that applications previously run on desktops like office suites and photo editing (Photoshop) will be in the cloud where the computing is there, and the mobile OS is the user interface only.   Adobe and Microsoft have already been moving this direction, so this announcement isn't as surprising as this article would suggest.
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>  Remember that when Google announced ChromeOS they had Citrix there, with the suggestion being in those early days that desktop apps should be virtualized into the server infrastructure, with mobile/portable/disposable devices providing the UI.  I know as someone in an IT team at an office with legacy desktops (Windows and MacOS) that we are sometimes expected to support I will be very happy when the concept of a desktop computer disappears (We will have workstations for advanced developers, and mobile OS's for everyone else).
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Interesting. Thanks for the post.

I expect then, that this is merely an extension of what they did with Outlook -> outlook.com. To the rest of the desktop apps / ecosystem.

However, Russell ... I can't align two things in your post: (1) "I will be very happy when the concept of a desktop computer disappears"; (2) "can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or portable media player from my cold dead hands!"

Never mind that as soon as {whatever} is hosted, particularly on a U.S. server, the very concepts of privacy, security, and confidentiality, go straight out the window.

(At the least, we are all not doing a good enough job explaining why this matters / big brother WILL put such to use for unexpected, unforeseen, and unpalatable uses, and by then it will be too late. I do not understand why more people, and every average person, aren't more concerned about that. e.g. per news items, even one's in flight meal choices will be filed with the U.S. government when one books a flight.)