Joel Spolsky has written a striking article on how Microsoft has lost the API war to web development and what it means to their future. Outlook: not too good. If you can’t control the developers you can’t win the platform wars basically. Glad to see a different and reasonable outlook instead of the same Linux will crush you argument, but will it hold true? I think so.

via Tucows

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