As if electronics retailers needed any more bad news, it’s now pretty clear that boxed software is going the way of the 8-track.  Erick Shonfeld does a nice job of highlighting this on TechCrunch.  I’d say that you can take it one step further, however, and forecast the demise of downloaded software as well. With the ever-increasing availability of mobile Internet access, browser-based apps (i.e. TrackVia’s online database) are clearly the future of software.

Here are 5 things we won’t miss about downloaded & installed desktop apps:

1. CPU-hogging auto-update checks
2. Enabling and tweaking firewall settings with each new install
3. Downloading & installing patches, updates, new versions
4. Reboots after updates
5. Ever-longer system start-up as every app wants to auto-run

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