Comments on: Towards an online desktop http://floatingsun.net/2005/09/15/towards-an-online-desktop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=towards-an-online-desktop Sat, 11 May 2013 19:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Johnist http://floatingsun.net/2005/09/15/towards-an-online-desktop/#comment-193363 Johnist Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:36:00 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/09/15/189/#comment-193363 Thanks Great Article.

]]> By: Floating Sun » Blog Archive » Web based office http://floatingsun.net/2005/09/15/towards-an-online-desktop/#comment-70 Floating Sun » Blog Archive » Web based office Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:46:58 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/09/15/189/#comment-70 [...] A sort of survey by ZDNet on Web2.0 office applications. I had mentioned most of these applications in an earlier post. [...]

]]> By: Vibhanshu http://floatingsun.net/2005/09/15/towards-an-online-desktop/#comment-66 Vibhanshu Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:08:08 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/09/15/189/#comment-66 Yeah you have Y! finance and all and people do store a lot of personal information on mails, but still that mostly refers to the tech savvy guys. We has done a survey and found out that people have no qualms about sharing personal mails etc, but they would prefer to store their medical records, bank statements etc. offline, becoz they think it is THEIR comps and hence more secure.

But then what Google is doing is pretty neat. I think somehow they are moving people towards the web, or rather intergrating both (web & desk) in a manner that a normal user wouldn’t know the difference.

]]> By: diwaker http://floatingsun.net/2005/09/15/towards-an-online-desktop/#comment-65 diwaker Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:15:12 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/09/15/189/#comment-65 Tim: there’s actually a lot of progress in this area. See:

* http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/keychain/
* http://linuxgazette.net/113/kapil.html

There are more but I can’t remember.

As for Photoshop, I just threw it out there. It might be hard to do it today, but in a few years time, you never know.

]]> By: Tim http://floatingsun.net/2005/09/15/towards-an-online-desktop/#comment-64 Tim Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:38:59 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/09/15/189/#comment-64 I’m actually more interested in a complete suit on a USB stick, a portable office in a sense. Secure. (encrypted.) With all one’s files and cross platform / hardware compatibility. How does that sound?

And btw. Photoshop online? hell no … The ramifications are horrid, basicly impossible. :)

Cheers!
-Tim

]]> By: diwaker http://floatingsun.net/2005/09/15/towards-an-online-desktop/#comment-62 diwaker Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:12:53 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/09/15/189/#comment-62 People *already* have financial statements on the web (banks, credit cards, yahoo finance). A lot of stuff in emails is much more private than financial statements and look at how people are embracing gmail. I’m not a fan of where things are going — all I’m saying is that the privacy issues are just a matter of time; people are already beginning to accept a secured, hosted data model.

]]> By: Vibhanshu http://floatingsun.net/2005/09/15/towards-an-online-desktop/#comment-61 Vibhanshu Thu, 15 Sep 2005 05:57:30 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/09/15/189/#comment-61 Something that we contemplated while at Adode. Powerpoint & Excel are not that difficult. Anything with a DOM can easily work with this web based model. Now Photoshop is totally another ballgame. The issues are too many and personally I dont think it makes sense.

And then there are privacy issues. People would not store their financial statement on thew web, they WANT it on their computer. Period.

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