Cloud era: bandwidth and browser importance greater than operating system

With the cloud era, network bandwidth and a good web browser is more important than the operating system. Thanks to the development of virtualization, cloud computing and web technology, desktop desktop operating systems are becoming less important to users, as are tablets and smartphones.

Not that the operating system is unimportant, as long as we use computers, the operating system is still very important, but in many ways, their importance is limited to the background. And it's hard to go back decades and we've been arguing about the operating system: "Mac OS x is better than Windows!" "Since XP works well, why upgrade Windows 7, 8 ...?" "You are all wrong, Linux is the king." "A similar debate is about to be history.

Look at the desktop, you can run in the browser more and more applications. In fact, Google Chrome OS is already in practice. Google believes that users need only a browser is enough, but also the concept of the entire software ecosystem, the launch of Gmail and docs and other products. The advancement of Web browsers stems from the development of network technology, such as the rise of HTML5 standards. If you don't believe in HTML5 's advantage, you won't notice that even Adobe has abandoned flash to develop HTML5.

At the same time, SaaS (software as a service) is becoming increasingly popular. This is not just Google's plan, Dropbox and many other software can also provide users with cloud computing storage services. At the same time, Apple's icloud also shifted data storage and media services, e-mail, and contact management to the cloud. Microsoft is also expanding this path with Office 365.

In the enterprise market, as cloud computing services take over more and more functions, the previous C/S (client/server) model is becoming obsolete. Users are increasingly unclear about the actual storage of applications and data. The enterprise IT staff may understand that the data is stored in a data center, but it is also limited to this. Similar changes are taking place in the consumer sector, and personal storage and services are shifting to the cloud.

In the background, which is the data center that handles cloud computing services, a row of servers runs virtual operating systems to meet the needs of users. The enterprise IT department no longer needs to allocate the physical servers separately to meet the requirements, instead, automated programs or system administrators can request more storage space or CPUs at any time.

All this means that the role of various operating systems in PCs, tablets and smartphones will be reduced in businesses and households. What really matters is ample network bandwidth and an excellent web browser.

In short, cloud computing will become a common commodity. As long as we can surf the Internet, we don't have to worry about operating system problems, just like we don't need to know how the current is transmitted, but we can still use electricity.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)