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> Windows 8 is supposed to fuse desktop and mobile, but, that is a problem for Microsoft, not their customers Sounds like classic architecture astronaut thinki

> Windows 8 is supposed to fuse desktop and mobile, but, that is a problem for Microsoft, not their customers Sounds like classic architecture astronaut thinking (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html)

arethuza 13y ago
It's more like what I usually describe as "car crash architecture" - ramming together two things that really don't belong together in the hope that they still work and nobody notices the rather obvious gaping seams.
- speeder 13y ago
  I loved that phrase :P
  - arethuza 13y ago
    I guess it's what happens when you collide a few Big Balls of Mud together - eventually some of them stick: http://laputan.org/mud/ http://laputan.org/mud/