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Will Intel's Atom Overhaul Fuel Another Netbook Boom?

Cloud computing: you do not have enough of propaganda you also want your personal data all over the place!

Open office: what do you know about "the vast majority of users" are you big brother? do you think anyone is just part of the stupid herd? you might have something there. Anyway open office spreadsheet does not include programming and i do program my excel applications with visual basic! very handy.

So is windows with all its automatic system and security updates and comparatively hassle free setup, maintenance and use.


On Dec 21 11:03 AM Davewmart wrote:

> At least here in the UK by far the biggest growth has been in thin
> clients running LInux, which is much more economical for processing
> power and memory than Windows.
> Sun also does an excellent Open Office which is free so for the vast
> majority of users the expence of the meatier hardware needed for
> Windows is quite unnecessary, as is the cost of the operating system.
>
> Any heavy duty processing needed can be carried out by cloud computing,
> whilst 99% of most users work can comfortably be done with non-Microsoft
> software and modest hardware.

PC Makers Face Netbook Peril - Barron's

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SAAS? too difficult to type complete words?
All personal data in a cloud means you don't know where it is, what is done with it. May be you want a big brother. I don't.