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The Microsoft Empire Reboots
But the web isn't hard because its distributed. Its mostly because HTML and CSS were not designed for making applications.
gaius
on Oct 12, 2014
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Exactly. If Microsoft had written Outlook in VBA as a plugin for Word, they'd have been laughed out of the room. But that's exactly what Google did with Gmail...
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