Peters: The Desktop or the Browser: Is the Netbook Escalating the Battle?

One reason might be failure of different OSes to provide such experience. Take for example email, calendar, address book, Todolist a.k.a PIM. Windows though provides single application which does this beautifully - outlook, is painfully slow add couple of IMAP email accounts and it becomes dead slow. I still use it beacause of its seamless integration with my Blackberry.

In Linux based distributions, take for example thunderbird, there is serious lack of such tight integration, but performance is very good. I think for now its seems impossible to achieve functionaly and experience.