I just ran into a fascinating and insightful discussion about web applications and the future of computing. The article includes lots of good dialog and many links to other related articles. My favorite is an article written by Joel Spolsky earlier this month: How Microsoft Lost the API War. His article touches on such diverse topics as backwards compatibility in the Windows API, the sudden stall in Internet Explorer development a few years back, the .NET framework, Microsoft's "bad bets" in the upcoming Longhorn, and the decline in rich clients. Enjoy!
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After reading the interesting API article yesterday, I've been poking around Joel Spolsky's blog. He has a number of other very interesting essays available online, including the first 9 chapters of his informative (and very funny) book on user interfa... Read More
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