Vista - Re: [News] The Role of the Desktop is Decreasing (and the Big Chance for Linux)

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:18:04 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> espoused:

> <snip excellent supporting material>

Oh brother........

How come you two always seem to come along as a pair?

Roy posts a message and within minutes you chime in with "That's another
great message Roy".

"I've been saying that for a long time"

Yuck

> I've been saying much the same here for months, possibly even years,
> now. The traditional desktop is very much the dinosaur of the modern
> computing age, so seeking dominance of it is quite possibly a little
> pointless. Perhaps what is more important is to ensure that free and
> open protocols work between all classes of devices, /including/ desktops
> for those people who still will continue to use them (there will be a
> very large number), as well as those who will use consoles, those who
> will use mobiles, those who will use web tablets like the Nokia N800,
> those who will use portables like the GP2X.
>
> The lower layers of packet networking are remarquably well defined and
> documented; however, how well is syncML supported across different
> packages and machines, say?


Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do others tell you that you are boring, Mark Kent?
God, I need to take No-Doze before reading your messages.