The PC era is coming to an end

"Computers are the terminals of a network with local computing power, and all services, including the operating system, should be available on demand from the network." Tomorrow's world should be so.

Google's collaboration with Sun will undoubtedly accelerate the end of the PC era, and Sun's "network is the computer" era is coming.

Sitting in the office some time ago, looking at so many PCs, is really depressing. First, Wintel is simply a rip-off, the office of most of the configuration of the PC is very good: the main clock is very high CPU, a large hard drive, loaded with garbage general WinXP. This is completely wasteful, in fact, the Office and Program development of the machine does not need such a configuration, can be in the market may be difficult to buy the low configuration of the new PC. Second, all of the PC's ability to work together is too poor, the company is to work together, can be a large number of access to the network of the PC is simply unable to meet this requirement.

So, at the time, imagine a way of working: a company that maintains a clustered server that provides operating systems, centralized storage, and various applications; All employees access to the network via a simple terminal (cpu+memory only), accessing the operating system, storage, and applications Performs a calculation locally on the terminal. This model completely solves both of these problems. First: There is no longer a waste of decentralized storage. Second: End customers can use any operating system, because the operating system is only the service of the cluster server, and the end customer can load XP, OS X, Unix, Linux locally as they like. Third: storage is fully shared, and work together is very simple, and almost all applications can work together within the support. Four: This kind of work mode, greatly reduces the enterprise IT cost, simultaneously enhances the enterprise the cooperation work efficiency.

I do not know whether this is what Sun said "The network is the computer", but I think the demand is real. So, I think today's era is similar to 1995 years or so, when Wintel set off the big screen of the PC era, but today the PC is coming to a close, "Network is the computer" era comes. A few days ago to see the introduction of Google OS, and recently heard him and sun, I think perhaps Sun, Google will become the creator of this new era.

Incidentally, Microsoft's "long angle" operating system, I think the PC era giant in the wrong direction to do enough, but the gorgeous PC operating system is about to become history, and the real network-oriented operating system is the future.