Tim Almond

 The Observer reported at the weekend: Why Vista will mean the end of the Microsoft monolith

This is just wishful thinking on someone’s part. Microsoft isn’t close to being finished. I have rarely seen someone running Linux, Unix or a Mac on their desktop in a large corporation. The times that I have, they were engineers, programmers or designers.

However, there is a problem that I see for Microsoft. Much of the internal application development being done with the Microsoft .net framework in companies is not desktop-orientated, but browser-orientated using ASP.NET. The reason is mostly that for distribution of software, it’s much less painful.

The downside for Microsoft is that it creates less binding between the desktop and the servers. An ASP.NET application delivers for a browser. That output can be easily set up to be more standards compliant. Which means that even if a company builds on a Windows server, at sometime in the future, they can change their desktops.

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