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number6 on Oct 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Full Circle

I think the "OS" that abstracts everything away is the web. Foremost these Javascript Applications.

With Microsoft 365 they took the Idea of Google Suit and integrated it in their OS.

Google tried it the other way and failed. But ultimately they are talking about the Chrome Book.

Well even beyond that. It shouldn't matter which hardware you use and this is brilliant; it's just not Microsofts Idea.

pjmlp on Oct 19, 2022 [–]

Not only the Web, we are now doing at large scale what Xerox, Sun, Apple, IBM and Microsoft envisioned during the last century, distributed computing with RPCs.

The Web is only one form of exposing those RPC endpoints.

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