Many people have predicted the death of the computer operating system as we know it. These predictions usually proclaim that the browser will become the new operating system, with a just about all our information residing in the cloud.
The cloud or cloud computing is an idea in computing that says information and programs will run on on servers, not on your desktop. Once all our information and programs are running on large servers, there becomes little need for much computing power at the desktop. All the desktop computer need to be is a conduit to the software and information residing in the cloud. (For simplicity I would call cloud computing synonymous with Software as a Service).
The one thing that I find interesting about all this cloud computing talk is that many predict that Linux will be the operating system of choice for desktop systems.
Some of the primary reasons are that Linux can be easily streamlined to run very quickly with few system resources. Linux is already seeing growing acceptance as an embedded operating system and it would logically follow that Linux might become the operating system for the future dumb terminals that connect us to the cloud.
If you are interested in learning more about the future of cloud computing read this article from PC World called, The Future is BIOS and Browsers.
