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Adam Bosworth writes about browser based apps on his blog. Here is my response.


You caution the world on possbility of Microsoft taking the applications back to the desktop away from the browser. I feel your argument is as valid as some hardware designed skimping of memory because in the old days memory was expensive.

The compelling reason for deploying browser based applications was that such applications are cheaper and easier to maintain thereby saving the enterprise money etc. That was the desktop centric argument. Then came mobile computing and that reasoning was further strengthened because we now have multiplicity of devices.

Those compelling reasons are no longer valid in today's world of falling cost of semi-conductors, software and services i.e. global deflation.

The clients side mobile or desktop is getting richer, cheaper and ubiquitous without sacrificing variety. If the application is not able to exploit this, the application is not worthy of deployment. While you may argue that browser based application lower the cost of deployment and will therefore be deployed not matter what, think again, because the global economics is showing that cost cutting is not the dominant framework but productivity enhance is.

The pendulam had swung too far into the browser based apps domain and I hope Microsoft bring it back to the desktop domain a little for those of us who hate to use browser based applications because of it very unproductive UI.