[VISTA] Re: New Microsoft Beta Download Center

Oh but Ray have a look at what Citrix is doing with it... maybe an entire
Silverlight Desktop with all your apps on the Server? Now this is cool
stuff.
http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=21791037
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Ray Costanzo <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here are my thoughts on Silverlight and such things.  A)  I agree it is
> cool!  B)
>
> Back in the day, we had dumb terminals.  We sat at green screens and
> entered
> commands to a mainframe which were echoed onto our monitors and we saw the
> results of them.  This was fine for a while, but in order to have a better
> and experience and more functionality, we moved onto having a local
> computer
> with an operating system.  We started running more and more things on our
> desktops and fewer and fewer things on servers.  This was great for
> usability, but a PITA to manage and maintain, not to mention how much of a
> PITA it is to access your data when it's on a desktop machine.  So, this
> has
> lead us into increasing popularity in web apps, which is just the modern
> day
> version of the dumb terminal.  But, we need more functionality, so in
> comes
> Flash, Javascript, ActiveX controls, Silverlight, and other such
> enhancements.  Eventually, the taskbar will be replaced by the tabs in
> your
> browser.  The browser will become as complicated and as cumbersome to
> setup
> and maintain as today's operating systems.  And then someone will create a
> browser that runs in the browser that is that day's version of the green
> screen.  And the cycle will just keep continuing until we realize that
> client-server is not a solution, it's a conflict.  And swaying the bias
> back
> and forth between the two just leaves things in an annoying flux.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vista-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vista-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com
> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:07 PM
> To: vista@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [VISTA] Re: New Microsoft Beta Download Center
>
> Hey Ray
> Maybe it is just you... maybe you are just really only virtually here. One
> of those twilight zone type of thingies. It must of detected virtual PC or
> Server running on your system or something.  Silverlight is pretty cool
> though.
>
>
>
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