Ready for a Web OS?
The article discusses the convergence of operating systems and Web browsers. The prediction of the eventual convergence by Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications Corp., is mentioned, noting that in 1995 he predicted that Web browsers would eventually render the desktop operating syst...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 12; pp. 16 - 18 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Dec2009
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