Chrome takes dead aim at Windows 7 and Microsoft Office

A wise man...

I agree fully. There's an additional consideration that IT elephants will ponder when being asked to move their Office-like chores to the Net, and that's one of ownership. No enterprise is going to allow their office environment to be held hostage by another entity, which is what would happen if the Net went down and they had to wait until it was back online before they could get some work done, if they defected from any of the Office packages. If you use Google Docs, you can't write a memo when the Net's down. (I suspect there may be some rudimentary capability built in, but the full environment will not--otherwise, it's not a Net app).

As I said in response to Vaughan-Nichols' fanboi blog, if Google is taking aim at Microsoft Office with Chrome, then the shot is likely to be a misfire.

Did you even read?

Stop for a second and read. Google Chrome is aiming to be a replacement for your desktop. Google Docs allows you to create documents online that can be shared with chosen users (and perhaps also those whom hack). Now lets say (for example) the entire lot of Fortune 500 Companies say "I like this program, let's get on the bandwagon!". Then Google Docs becomes so successful that Microsoft stops producing Microsoft Word, or in fact makes Windows Live Word. Then the desktop (even though there are other programs, let's stick to word processing at the only form of a program) becomes obsolete.

Like the others above said, this is not going to happen. The web (even with it's vast depths, and rich content) will never become just a support system in which the web browser would need to perform such actions.

I do believe however that in the next couple of years, our desktops will become more and more connected to the net. For example SkyDrive, upload documents, etc, and download them in another location. I can also see more user accessible and friendly remote desktops, web apps that will turn one system completely into another making it as if it was your own.

Any I am rambling, sorry. I agree with the two first posters.

I don't think so. There

I don't think so.

There isn't any empirical evidence that supports your claim that Google is spying on it's users.

I have been using Google products for years and havent seen any such ads.

Sure, when I look up "C++" in Google, I see ads for Visual C++. But that has nothing to do with me. It's not persionalised, as far as I can see at least.

Plus, what is the advantage of that to Google?
It seems that Google would have to much risk aversion to try doing something like this. I highly doubt that keeping logs of personal data (an expensive, and somewhat useless process) would be necessary for Google's advertising. Really, how much information do such companies with ads need? I doubt that they would pay that much money to Google for information that they don't need to advertise. They certainly don't need to know your "every move".

No offence, but what your saying here doesn't make much sense to me. :-)

~H1He2