04-25-2011, 04:50 PM
People have been predicting the death of the desktop for the last 10 to 15 years and it hasn't happened yet. I for one have no interest in running applications from 'the cloud'. It reeks of application servers which I despise. My preference is and will always be to have software installed on my local machine from media that I can hold in my hot little hands. I have stuck my toe into the world of Steam and software purchased and downloaded from them without any physical media and I have to say that I am not a fan. I believe that there will be a place for desktop machines for many years to come even if it exists nowhere but in manufacturing industry and with curmudgeons like me.
Zirak / Thanoslug in lots of MMOs
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"Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead." -Margaret Thatcher
"Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead." -Margaret Thatcher