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Story: Google's desktop liberation tool

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"Without operating system there is no browser. "

The point is, it doesn't matter what operating system you use, you don't actually use it to do anything other than start a web browser, everything else is on the web. Doesn't matter if you are using a smartphone, PDA, thin client with built in Web browser, PC, Mac, Unix/Linux workstation. Once the browser is launched (and why not use a thin client which boots straight into a web browser? no fuss, no muss), it is irrelevant what OS you use, the user experience is the same.

Saying that, I don't like the idea of storing my files on someone elses server somewhere else in the world. It is hard enough to keep control of your own data when it is stored locally or in a company datacentre, let alone when somebody else is caretaking it for you (see today's article about MS's Halo 2 source code being leaked)...

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