No, this isn’t about Firefox. It is about Google, and Sun seeing an opening in Microsofts Armor.
I’m talking about finally moving your applications off of your desktop and into your browser.
Google and Sun are going to announce a developing project based on Sun’s openoffice, that will run in your browser. Now, you can edit documents and spreadsheets in a browser.
The COO of Sun says that this is a run at beating Windows Vista and Office 12 to the punch, and I think it could work.
Microsoft is weak in terms of web prescence. Google Maps is way better than MS’s maps, and MS ended up copying most of Googles features later and just made it more messy looking with their MSN crap all over it. Google came out with context sensative desktop searching before MS, and now MS is putting it into windows Vista. Next, Google will release a FREE (or mostly free, I’m guessing here since it isn’t out yet) office suite that works in your browser.
This technology is great, it is all based on some new tweaks in the way web developers tackle problems based on browser reloads. Now, no reloads are necessary, that is the magic that makes google maps work, as well as gmail’s spell checker.
Damn I’m excited. This means in a few years I could pretty much run Linux w/o the headaches of setting anything up except a network connection and a browser. Besides, by then Google and Sun will probably have released a free operating system based on sun’s new x86 based solaris. That would be sweet.
Man, the way we interact with other people and our computers is changing so fast that you could miss it if you weren’t paying attention.
I’ll have more to say about this after the official announcement (12:30 central time).