TheShadowzero's Journal: The Internet browser is the new OS - October 1, 2006

CNN predicts that soon applications loaded from the internet through a web browser (as opposed to one saved on your hard drive) will render operating systems obsolete. Allegedly, the trend of using PDA phones to access email and the internet has shown that the access of portable office apps is what we want. Also stated is that PDA phones will soon replace laptops.
From the article: "What this means is that you'll be able to write your documents in Writely (who needs Word?), e-mail them via Gmail (who needs Outlook?), and arrange appointments to jointly edit those documents via Google Calendar (again, who needs Outlook?). And while you're at it, a Google Talk chat window running inside these applications could let you collaborate (who needs AIM?)."