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I've been thinking about the rise of the web as an application platform for a while. But what hadn't occurred to me until I read Spolsky's essay last week is this, which I think is quite remarkable: Microsoft totally fucked up when they took aim at Netscape. It wasn't Netscape that was a threat to Windows as an application platform, it was the web itself.

They spent all that time, money, and development effort on IE, building a browser monopoly and crushing Netscape -- but to what avail? Here we are, and the web is still gaining developer mindshare at the expense of Win32.

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Microsoft is still hedging it's bets. It sunk money into WebTV and is still struggling with smartphones and handhelds. But if the web wins, Microsoft loses.
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