Stop! Web Time!

[andrewducker]

EDIT: The Web is _anything in a browser_. If it's not in a browser then it's not the web. If you use a chat client that's browser-based, then that counts. If you use one that's a program, then it doesn't.

[Poll #1657175]

The reason I'm curious is Google's pushing of the Chrome laptops - which are designed to be web only. I know that a lot of my time is spent on the web nowadays, but I'm curious as to what percentage most people spend on it.

(Non-web usages of the computer are either playing non-web games (Dragon Age and Super Meat Boy this week) and watching videos - although that's mostly on Julie's PC, as it's in the bedroom.)

The second question is because there was a big battle over MS Office versus OpenOffice, and I realised that I don't really use Office at home since I stopped sending letters. I still have it (the joy of a brother who works for Microsoft), but I can't see me using it.

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[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm typing into LJ, I have Microsoft Outlook on the other screen showing me my mail, my editor is opening a document from the file server, iPlayer is streaming the Bob Harris show (but equally I could have had iPlayer download a TV show to my harddisk and watch it "offline/non-web".

I have Excel, our Agile work tracker, three communicator windows (non-web IM) open and several apps minimised/on the tool\taskbar waiting for things to happen.

And that's at work ... at home it's pretty much the same though I may have a web or non-web video convertor making phone versions of US TV series that I picked from a browser window but that are downloaded by uTorrent ...

Much of what I do *can* be done on the web, but in many cases I choose to use a local app, either because I like the interface, or because I want to leave the bandwidth available for other apps.