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0 pointsTYPE_FASTER4y ago0 comments

Not only lost productivity, but getting executive buy in to invest in WPF was difficult after Silverlight.

Kinda joking, kinda serious, but all the Microsoft UI changes in the last 10-15 years have definitely helped enterprise IT adopt internal web applications. :)

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spaetzleesser4y ago

Very true. I used to be a desktop dev but since Windows 8 MS has convinced me it’s better to do web stuff.

rbanffy4y ago

It’s fun to think that, after all these years, we are back to screen-oriented terminals (browsers) accessing mainframes (cloud apps)…

I loved the 3278.

cudgy4y ago

And now we write “screen scrapers” to get information from html instead of the terminal emulators. Rinse. Repeat.

cudgy4y ago

<sarcasm> True. Frameworks to build web applications only come out every few months.

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0 pointsTYPE_FASTER4y ago0 comments

Not only lost productivity, but getting executive buy in to invest in WPF was difficult after Silverlight.

Kinda joking, kinda serious, but all the Microsoft UI changes in the last 10-15 years have definitely helped enterprise IT adopt internal web applications. :)

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spaetzleesser4y ago

Very true. I used to be a desktop dev but since Windows 8 MS has convinced me it’s better to do web stuff.

rbanffy4y ago

It’s fun to think that, after all these years, we are back to screen-oriented terminals (browsers) accessing mainframes (cloud apps)…

I loved the 3278.

cudgy4y ago

And now we write “screen scrapers” to get information from html instead of the terminal emulators. Rinse. Repeat.

cudgy4y ago

<sarcasm> True. Frameworks to build web applications only come out every few months.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse