Majority of the technology experts and stakeholders that have participated in various meetings all across the globe expected that by 2020 most people will access software applications online and share access all the information through the use of remote server networks only, rather than depending on primary tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers. They say that cloud computing will become more and more central than the desktop over the next decade. If we think clearly, most of the users will perform all the computing and communicating activities through connections to servers operated by outside firms.
There are so many cloud services and amongst them the most popular cloud services now are social networking sites (with almost 500 million people using Facebook are being social in the cloud), webmail services like Hotmail and Yahoo mail, microblogging and blogging services such as Twitter and WordPress, video-sharing sites like YouTube, picture-sharing sites such as Flickr, document and applications sites like Google Docs, social-bookmarking sites like Delicious, business sites like eBay, and ranking, rating and commenting sites such as Yelp and TripAdvisor. We all know that these websites are already very huge and these are just some of them. There are tons of websites that are being launched on a daily basis that we don’t even know as of yet. Twitter was one of them few years back and look at it now, all the celebrities communicate using only twitter, its official for them.
This does not mean, however most of these experts think the desktop computer will disappear soon. The majority sees it as a hybrid life in the next decade, as some computing functions move towards the cloud and others remain based on the personal computers.
