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Re:Redefining the Operating System by biohacker42 on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @10:23AM (#293831)
I helped my neighbor by replacing IE and its default home page of MSDN with Firefox and google and adblock plus and bugmenot.

The next day he was super happy and his exact words were "Wow, it's like a whole new operating system!".

I was glad to help, found it a bit funny how a non techie gets the terminology all mixed up, but I didn't think anything of it.

Until today, now I'm thinking that a whole lot of people really do see the browser as the OS.

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Re:Redefining the Operating System by stcredzero on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @11:20AM (#293888)
When the day comes when it doesn't matter if the user gets the OS, the disk, the browser, and the computer confused, then designers and programmers will have done their job correctly. (And it never happens because they never see these distinctions and don't have to care.)

Right now, the only computer that approaches this is the iPhone.

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