On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Stephen D. Williams <sdw@lig.net> wrote:
Everything will be run in the cloud and browser because it is, overall, a better computation model.
Certainly that's the current bias, but web browser as platform isn't really all that it's cracked up to be, IMHO - all browsers suck, and I don't see them getting better any time soon, especially if they run javascript and plugins.
However, that doesn't preclude you from running a cloud locally.
Certainly better than public/commercial clouds - at least until proven encryption becomes the norm.
Although pretty much proprietary to Google & Amazon until recently, Docker et al and related VM/container management APIs that are mappable to all kinds of implementations will allow apps, administration, networking, etc. to be fluid between commercial and various types of private clouds.
In a lot of ways, this is an elegant solution and could arguably be much more secure than desktop apps in Windows. Assuming your container system isn't running in Windows, which is becoming an option; one that I won't trust easily.
Eh - good sysadmins with good managers/policies can secure Windows just fine, though I do like jails under FreeBSD... Kurt