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Originally Posted by toonlight
Well paying for cross platform Apps, is good if your using a totally different browser than it was originally designed for & supports the more like/sharing minded concept to build a open free source community, other than MS closed minded pockets. It lets the little person out there have a slice of the action that paid Apps brings- progress.
I wasn't going on about paid browsers, just the apps part, sorry for any misunderstanding Sir Stuart.
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Fair enough, although I've seen nothing to suggest paid apps through browsers will be a success..
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There one reason why MS slipped so quickly down the list.. byte by byte - just offering a fixed core browser is not going push it in these day of ages, you have to offer choices & add-ons to suit each persons requirements.
Saying here is the browser, take or leave it - not going to work any more. 
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IE does support add ons..
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Well all browser, producers/desginers do it - even FF copied tabbed browsing from Oprea so not new but releasing the core programme source code will/has produced more. I remember when Netscape use to be king of the browser wars, not IE - even back then MS wasn't cutting the mustard
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Yet MS came from behind and eventually destroyed Netscape.. Sort of illustrates my point about them doing a 180 with their business strategy.
They also introduced a few technologies to the web, namely ASP and Active X. Neither of which were expected to succeed. They did, even though both had massive problems.
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Sony created there own problem there, with limited the o/s choices, then the hacker/work around usb boot hack Then ain't Sony laying off employees in drive to cut costs? (read some where)
Like anything new it's 50/50 something work some don't, you have to take risks to get a head of other market leaders.
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Actually I wasn't talking specifically about the PS3. I was talking about the network outage. I used it as an example because the average user would expect that Sony have the technical know how and finances required to keep all their networks relatively secure. Certainly I would expect my Cloud App provider to have that expertise available.
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Well MS know a lot about that with there O/S software windows 2000/Vista - not full tested from the start, knowing it has bugs but not working then before hand shameful.
Mostly like will, as long as the shareholds get there money investment interest in return, the future is limitless as per normal with big multi nationals.
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An OS is too big a product to ever be entirely bug free. That is true whether the OS in question is Windows, OSX, Linux, Android or iOS. For instance. As long as the vendor has a mechnism in place where they deal with bugs quickly, and update regularly, that should be little problem.