moishe - 4:54 pm on May 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

>>Imagine a PC that would allow you to log into your "account" from any browser. There, your hoarde of files, email, software, photos and whatever else you decided to contribute would be waiting for you to work with, to do whatever it is you do with your data.<<
This sounds like a clipping from a speech given by Larry Ellison, wasn't this Oracles vision of the future of computing? Come to think of it Bill Gates gave a speech at Comdex around 96 or 97 that contained similiar concepts..
IMHO, people like to have their "stuff" tucked neatly away in their own computer, the general public is too scared of hackers and the like to trust keeping all their family pictures and whatnot on some server who knows where.
The point made about China and other places where individual PC ownership is lower is a valid one, but for how long, seems to me that as incomes rise and PC prices fall, more and more people worldwide will want to be able to keep their "stuff" close at hand.

A Google os? Why bother, unless it runs Windows apps it will never get any more market share than Corel Linux or BE OS or OS2 etc etc, now if it could legally run Windows apps, then we might have a real horse race on our hands....