I stumbled over two interesting articles about Microsoft's web strategy. The first one on linux universe headlined "How Netscape beat Microsoft". The bottom line (of the first half) is that while MS defeated Netscape in the browser war it couldn't stop webapps taking over classical Windows client apps. The second article "Why Microsoft's All About the Web" considers Microsoft's position slightly different but also points out: "Even so, the Internet remains a great threat to Microsoft [...]. Most of what I do could be done on a much simpler computer; no Windows required."
I'm pretty much looking forward to the PDC to learn how MS is going to regain momentum for windows apps with technologies like "ClickOnce" (no-touch deployment) and "Avalon". Thanks to Scoble for the links.
Another interesting competitive article containing an interview with Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software can be found here. Thanks to Don.
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