The Modern economy is moving
towards cloud at a rapid pace. With the likes of AWS, MS & Google along
with plethora of small players in the Space the Technology is evolving much
faster. Now you have the Truck and the load is being filled too , that my friends
are the application. Making application available over Internet had been tried
before in early 2000 (remember Application Service Providers (ASP) ) but never
took off , the market has been made ready for this adoption by AWS and its
popular IaaS service. Now that everybody is getting comfortable with
cloudifying, the Application space has started to boom. Today on an average 11-
15 cloud apps are being used by a typical enterprise which is going to increase
in years to come, easy adapters would be COTS Apps.
Apps previously were written to be
run on a Desktop but with this new Shift towards clods apps are Written keeping
in mind the Cloud access as well as access over Mobile devices, if an app is
SaaS in nature its easy to run it across multiple form factors which is a
reality in Workplace of today. What it will result into is loss of relevance
for Platforms like Windows Apps of previous Generations were written for these
but now apps are increasingly being written keeping Cloud in mind reducing te platform
dependence.
Will Windows be able to survive
this and maintain its Prime time slot?
With receding popularity of Windows
the tools and ecosystem around it will also shrink in importance.
