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Re:Thoughts on Intel's upcoming Software Guard Extensions (P... by gaius on Monday September 09, 2013 @05:07AM (#6352456)
It's worse than that.

Imagine if in the 90s MS had written Outlook, Excel etc in VBA and you ran them inside Word as macros. They would have been laughed out of the market, but that is is exactly what modern app developers do, shoehorning everything into a web page inside a browser.

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Re:Thoughts on Intel's upcoming Software Guard Extensions (P... by icebraining on Monday September 09, 2013 @06:55AM (#6352671)
Office ran on Windows, which itself ran from MS-DOS. Doesn't seem particularly different to me.

The comparison to Word is completely invalid, because Word is itself one of the applications, while the browser isn't a webapp.

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Re:Thoughts on Intel's upcoming Software Guard Extensions (P... by gaius on Monday September 09, 2013 @11:33AM (#6354054)
Not quite. The comparison is between Outlook and GMail. And my point stands - the web was (and hence is) designed for hypertext, not applications.
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