Windows API is lost

If you’re a bit interested in the Windoze OS (this one’s for ya, Kirupa :wink: ), then read this (looong) article by software guru Joel Spolsky.
It’s really interesting and at the end, considering what he doesn’t like about todays web-based apps, had me thinking just 2 things: Flash RIAs and Central!!
Even tho’ in his latest article he says "…What I do not want to hear about:

Proprietary tools like Macromedia’s or Java Applets that embed clever widgets in rectangles in a browser. I want this stuff integrated with DHTML and CSS, deeply in the fabric of the web …"

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