Tag: Microsoft

  • Spolsky on the Windows API

    Joel Spolsky on How Microsoft Lost the API War:

    Outside developers, who were never particularly happy with the complexity of Windows development, have defected from the Microsoft platform en-masse and are now developing for the web….

     

    Much as I hate to say it, a huge chunk of developers have long since moved to the web and refuse to move back.

    Good article. I recommend reading all of it, not just my highly selective snippets here.