Ben Gilbert: recommendation

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…And I think we got to call it here, the death of Microsoft as a relevant consumer technology company. They never recovered from this as a leader. I think that’s correct. There’s a lot to talk about in their consumer technology offerings. I also think this is the death of Microsoft as an interesting platform for developers. Who is writing Vista apps? The Win32 API as a potential target for my new interesting, innovative application is just not a thing anymore. You have to write a Windows desktop app at this point in history because it’s where a bunch of the users are. If you need a desktop app for real for real, but probably you’re just writing a web app. You’ve lost developer hearts and minds, which is the path to losing relevance. I think with one exception. I think you were totally right. Nobody is writing Vista apps, but the only people left who are writing Windows apps period are enterprise developers writing custom software for enterprises.…

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