Has Vista lost to the Web?

Google thinks so. Google Pushes to Make Browser Applications More Powerful Obviously programs such as Microsoft Office are still much more powerful than anything offered on the web. From a user’s perspective and rival software makers this may sound boastful. But if you look at what is in the pipeline and the closing gap then the day the web becomes the operating system is just a matter of time. There are those that think that the web will hit a wall and has already reach limitation that will prevent it from closing the gap. As an inventor and developer of new technology I am using technology that has already bridged the gap. Architecturally the web has now surpassed the operating system. However two things are holding it back. The internet standards group’s new HTML standard is completely out of sync. Microsoft continues to limit the browser in both functionality and memory. That means functionality that should operate at the machine code level must be run as code. As such it is much slower. One way some companies such as Google are getting around this is to run the functionality on the server. That means you must be on-line to use an application and companies have had trouble convincing customers to pay for the server side service. It will be interesting to see how Google moves server side processing back to the browser. Could we possibly be seeing a Google browser?