ShareThisAt work our administrative team are pondering tablet PCs.They're nice and maybe even okay. Maybe it'll help these folks to be more productive. I'm not too interested in tablets or even desktops anymore as I see the present and future moving to cloud computing. More and more desktops and desktop applications will be hosted within data centers that exist within clouds.

Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of products such as Microsoft Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, DabbleDB, Basecamp, and many others now provide Web-based alternatives to the full range of familiar desktop office productivity apps.

What's on your desktop won't really matter. What will matter is your ability to get to the cloud applications. I've been a Blackberry user for two years and a user of a Windows virtual desktop for a years. I've shared information back and forth between that desktop and the Blackberry with Lotus Notes. Now, there are applications such as Google Docs which allow me to edit and share documents from both the Blackberry and the desktop from within the cloud known as Google Docs. Google is my new home drive. I can collaborate with others on documents hosted within this cloud. Desktops are isolated while cloud applications abound and they are becoming even more plentiful. Read more here.