Well put. And the UML at the end is the cherry on top. But the striking thing about the post, which I had to go read [~], is how insular it is. He's saying obvi

Well put. And the UML at the end is the cherry on top. But the striking thing about the post, which I had to go read [~], is how insular it is. He's saying obviously false things, not out of stupidity per se, but out of a false worldview. He's embedded in an environment that confirms this worldview back to him, so it doesn't seem false. (There's a dim awareness of reality in one comment, though: "where are all those awesome WPF applications I’ve been waiting for?") Viewed this way, the rant is fascinating. It's the Microsoft equivalent of an IBM mainframe guy in the 1980s ranting against PCs. Of course Microsoft are doing things on the web today, but IBM was a leading PC vendor then too. The post is the best thing I've seen shedding light on MS culture vis-à-vis the web. Culture is a hard thing to change. If the post is representative, MS are in big trouble. Perhaps they will reinvent themselves. They did it in the past, as we know. But they had quite different leadership then. [~] http://michaelbraude.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-ill-never-be-web-guy.html http://michaelbraude.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-ill-never-be-w...