Viable Alternatives to IE/Outlook

To stop using IE and Outlook (or Outlook Express) you simply need to download either the Opera 6 browser and/or Mozilla Version 1.2 now available. Both are now more productive than IE. Opera (without Java) is very fast to download and more secure than other browsers.

And generally safer for you to use on the web.

Windows created its market by giving us a need for a "desktop".

In fact what we have is a recession based around a whole lot of people playing with their icons, playing solitaire (the real Windows killer ap!) and generally wasting time. Of course Office is important to businesses, but when Linux can run Office ... is not the key. When Linux can run Counter Strike - that is also not the key. Emulation is retro.

I mean, GIMP is better than Photoshop but still is not useful for desktop publishing.

RPG Games and 3D graphics may run well in Linux, but not as well as DirectX.

The next killer ap will be something entirely new that Windows has no hope of matching.

Like PHP and Apache and mySQL - these are the areas of innovation. IIS never came close.

My Linux machine is my development platform. It is a joy to work on, even though its a PIII/500.

So what is the next "killer ap"? We hope its one we develop at SFSW.NET . It is likely to be something that integrates the web, our personal lives and makes cell-phones obsolete.

It's bound to be something we love to do, and do when there is little else to do. It is going to be something that is reachable by the vast majority of people and is useful, unlike most of the technical innovation which occurred after MS got its hands on the Internet and turned it into a bloody overcrowded shopping mall.

The search for the next "killer ap" is a bit of a gold-rush mentality.

My guess is parallel Sim World that runs on Linux servers and actually does work for people.

My guess is that Linux will be key to the next huge social changing ap which may be a sort of Sim World that actually does work for people - a kind of paradigm universe where we do not work on computers but they work with out us in a continuum that we enter. The WWW is sort of like that, but not.

It could be the end of drudgery and enslavement by adminstration.