Chrome = Leading Edge Indicator for Desktop Decline

September 7, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment 

The decline of the desktop is coming. Microsoft knows it and created Silverlight. Adobe saw it and created Air. Google saw it and created Chrome. 

Save for Chrome, most people haven’t heard of the other efforts to create a fast stable and more powerful operating environment for sophisticated “software as service” or “cloud hosted” applications people can access from their desktop. 

Thomas Claburn has an interesting take on this at InformationWeek. Check out his article here.