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Oh, yeah, you're also wrong. The desktop is dead. It, and apparently you, just don't know it yet. Sure, it'll be years before everything we do happens on the network...but not many years. It's just too damned convenient to have it floating in the cloud, accessible wherever you happen to be and with whatever devices you have handy.
Not quite actually. Take 37signals app. I can't use it for work related because that would resulted in me storing the confidential work related items under their server. Work also takes much of your time. Another example would be to store Word docs in Google. One slip-up and your word docs is searchable by Google. So no, the desktop isn't dead yet. In fact, I only use websites to read news and forums.
Privacy awareness and assurance will come to these services. Most small businesses already outsource email...that's as "confidential" as most businesses get.
I already know dozens of people that use gmail for everything (business and personal). It's not a large gap between that and presentations, spreadsheets, etc.
And, of course, "web" doesn't just mean "running at Google". There are numerous installable products that aren't desktop apps, but keep data within an organization.
"In fact, I only use websites to read news and forums."
This merely exhibits your own bias, not the coming reality. Sure, it'll be years, as I mentioned. But it's definitely coming. The convenience, higher efficiency (both for the provider and the consumer), and faster pace of innovation will win in the end. Someone else mentioned that desktop software is harder and that web apps can be developed by hacks...while that isn't entirely true (the apps we're generally willing to rely on were developed by seriously good developers regardless of whether it's desktop or web-based), it's another reason for web apps to win. More developers equals more apps for more specialized needs. Just like DSLs are the best way to solve many programming problems, custom apps are the best way to solve many software problems...with more developers more custom apps can flourish. And if you have a choice between a poorly fitting desktop app, or an ideally fitting web app designed exactly for your business and industry, you'll choose the web app. Again, I don't know that it's really true--all software is hard, when it comes to making it ready for the masses.
Anyway, denial is a part of the seven stages of grief. For those grieving the death of the desktop, you've probably got a couple of stages to go, and that's alright. ;-)