ClickZ: Welcome to the Google Desktop?
Danny Sullivan's behemoth of choice - Google - just may become a "desktop paradigm," as evidenced by its foray into email with its new Gmail service. As Sun abdicates the Anti-Microsoft mantle with its recent multi-billion-dollar settlement, Google may be the next big thing in desktop insurrections.
Where Java never quite got Sun to the "The Network Is the Computer" panacea, Google's voracious appetite for email, attachments and, as Sullivan mischievously suggests, spreadsheets, and other general files, could lead to that potential Microsoftless future.
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