A lot of people seem to have missed the point, and this post is amongst them.. So for those who keep missing it... Once upon a time the trend was to write des

A lot of people seem to have missed the point, and this post is amongst them.. So for those who keep missing it... Once upon a time the trend was to write desktop applications, but because Microsoft had control, was able to kill big players like Netscape, for which they ended up DOJ with MS being accused for monopoly... Other victims: Java Virtual Machine of Sun was replicated as a Microsoft Java Machine which was incompatible and Sun accused them too. WordPerfect, Lotus, Corel, HTML editors, media players, and the list goes on... Microsoft was really scary for anyone developing for MS Windows, because nothing could stop MS cloning your app and just ship it with their OS and killing you instantly. How is Google now scary for everyone making web apps? ...Can you understand that? You do? Good! Now you understand what Microsoft used to be.