Something to think about…
Ryan Stewart on Live Mesh and future development technologies: “I think the next couple of years are going to be great in unifying the web and getting rid of “web application” versus “browser applications”. They’re just going to be applications when all is said and done.”
Hmm.
To me, I’m busy parsing out the historical rationales from the progressive ideas. I agree with Ryan that down the road programming targets will be given a different labels. Whether things will really be different, I don’t know. I expect to see more computer-to-computer applications (computers that analyze and process the output from other computers, if you will), to the extent that Live Mesh facilitates this, I’m quite excited.
I also agree with Ryan in that Silverlight (and I’d add the .NET Framework) is a key technology for Microsoft going forward. As I’ve blogged about before my latest theory is that Windows is about saying “no” in order maintain stability over its vast market. On the other side of the coin, Silverlight and the .NET Framework, and the innovation hubs where we should expect to see higher and higher levels of abstractions. Listboxes and Queues aren’t going to be enough. Those were fine for single-OS-level thinking. We’re going beyond that. Live Mesh may be a step in the right direction. I can’t tell at this point. I need some hands on time.