This morning I recieved ACM Crossroads magazine and found Paul Graham's interview on "The Future of Programming". While answering a question about future programming disciplines, Paul said
“I don’t think Microsoft realizes the danger they’re in. They’re worrying about Google. And they should. But they should worry even more about thousands of twenty year old hackers writing Ajax applications. Desktop software is going to become increasingly irrelevant."
In my personal opinion, he has spoken too soon. Microsoft has immensely contributed in web development and has increasingly become agile to industry needs. Comparing Ruby on Rails with ASP.NET would be a futile exercise. There is inertia but the power of innovation will catch on. If you've seen LINQ, DLINQ and XAML floating around, you'd know what I mean.
It also has Nova GSCIS ad on page 5.
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