Melding the Web and the desktop
Where it will all go I don’t know but today’s announcement by Adobe of a system called “Air” that blends the Internet and the PC may be a hint of the future. The New York Times has a substantial article about the Flash-based project and how it may shape up a big battle with Microsoft. Here’s an excerpt:
The battle will largely pit Microsoft’s 2.2 million .Net software developers against the more than one million Adobe Flash developers, who have until now developed principally for the Web, as well as a vast number of other Web-oriented designers who use open-source software development tools that are referred to as AJAX.
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