I went to a conference recently about AIR and it looks quite interesting. Adobe understands that there is a divide between programmers who make web-based softw

I went to a conference recently about AIR and it looks quite interesting. Adobe understands that there is a divide between programmers who make web-based software and programmers who make desktop software and their idea is to bring web-programming techniques to the desktop. For example, you could download an AIR program that gives you a more fluid and responsive front-end to Amazon.com which pre-caches the parts of the catalogue most interesting to you. Could be interesting once the runtime is more widely installed.