Fog lifts on software's web base - Next - smh.com.au

Fog lifts on software's web base - Next - smh.com.au: "When a former Microsoft program manager, software entrepreneur and author backs down from one of his best-known ideas, a few people notice. When he announces in the process that software has changed and Microsoft's best days are behind it, heads turn.
Such has been the conversion of Joel Spolsky, the head of Fog Creek Software"

An important turn of events -- people are willing to forgo simple things like drag and drop to have a simpler world that still gets the job done. The whole basis of NetSuite is just this. Sure working in a web browser seems like taking the computing interface back several years, but a much simpler world for people to keep up with and a world where people can run their businesses and have the information they need.

Microsoft's big installs have to go -- Microsoft has just cost me personally half my entire allocation of downloads for this month on my cut-price broadband allocation. A 'free' update of Windows XP Service Pack 2 has cost me $35. If it were possible to have this as a web-based update, it would simply come in the downloads of each page as and when needed.