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Active Desktop and MS DHTML was awesome. Insecure as hell for "consumers", but awesome. VBscript/Wscript on/in the desktop as an application was really useful.

• muyuu 3y ago
  If containers had been a thing, many of the wild MS ideas of the early 2000s wouldn't have been actually crazy.
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    They were a thing, on mainframes, micro-computers, and a few selected UNIXes like the (shortly lived) Tru64 and HP-UX. My introduction to containers was HP-UX Vaults.
    • muyuu 3y ago
      they were not a thing that commodity hardware, but most importantly the target user, was really prepared to run at the time same as virtual machines were a thing in the early 70s and client-server in the 80s, but not for the target market despite the industry thought so for some time
      • pjmlp 3y ago
        It depends on the definition of target user/market. For IT professionals definitly yes.
        • muyuu 3y ago
          that wasn't remotely the target of Active Desktop
          • pjmlp 3y ago
            Indeed that was for Electron like applications, and not at all matter of discussion.
    • red-iron-pine 3y ago
      Aye, BSD jails have been around for a while, and the chroot jail has been a concept since I've been using *nix OS's. But there wouldn't have been the hardware, resources, or depth of support available for the end user in the 2000s. There are still non-technical folks I deal w/ at work that don't get what a VM is...