Cloud computing: PCs cannot escape the demise of dinosaurs

It looks like the PC will be dead. Unlike the extinction of the dinosaurs, however, PCs are not just disappearing from the Earth-their fate, which cannot be replaced, will be rewritten and gradually disappearing from the desktop.

Some even pointed to the exact date of the PC's demise – August 18, when Hewlett-Packard announced a 7.1 billion-pound takeover of Britain's second-largest software company, followed by HP's consideration of selling the entire PC business unit, disrupting the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/ Aggregation/5578.html ">webos device support.

Cloud computing is the Terminator to the PC

Hewlett-Packard's decision, while having difficulties and market downturns, is more of a realisation that consumers and corporate users are now facing choices that are not for hardware. The era of sourcing a reasonably effective IT infrastructure is gone--instead, the real development of mobile computing.

Mobile computing does not offer the best laptops, smartphones, and tablets, making people more productive--because today's technological and hardware qualities are reliable and stable enough to exceed people's imagination and choice--a myth that was almost impossible more than 10 years ago.

How to provide the most reliable notebook computer in today's society? Consumers can now walk into any retail store and buy tablets that do not contain mobile-networking modules, and enjoy the reliability and performance they bring, until their life ends or is stolen.

Many young people are now handing out a lot of computing work to smartphones, and smart-phone hardware choices are not as different as they might be. Today's people live in homes, schools, and companies with multiple, multi-line mobile scenarios that don't need to be installed or fixed on cars or desks.

In addition, people are beginning to use a variety of cloud services gradually. and popular web Mail can also help people reduce the complexity of Outlook settings. As for people moving their offices into tablets, they are also related to people's culture and environment. Many people will be interested in customizing the purchase or use of service providers, because they do not need to buy the OS alone, only through the Internet to enjoy on-demand services, to achieve the full use of resources.

Various cloud services

Cloud also conforms to the concept of environmental protection and energy conservation. By using virtualization, cloud data centers can significantly reduce server and power consumption. HP's announcement of the sale of its PC business unit also signaled that HP would follow IBM's footsteps and focus on services.

As for Microsoft and PC-centric vendors, it will be interesting to learn how the future of the new cloud will come. Although the users are still in control of these manufacturers, and many of the PC business unit manufacturers are also in the fierce fight in the market, but the PC will not be rid of the dinosaurs like the fate of the battlefield.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)