Maybe that is true of what they think at Microsoft. Interestingly enough, I recently read an article by Dino Esposito in MSDN Magazine on this exact topic. He is generally considered an industry guru and said, in essence, that you are going to have a really hard time making one size fit all since the devices are so different. Looking at a smartphone screen is a completely different viewport than looking at a desktop monitor.

>Microsoft would beg to disagree with that statement: they bet the farm, in Win8, that one GUI can work for all. They haven't proven it yet, of course.
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>In any case, I looked at our (daytime job) very large app, and over the past 10 years the UI has been modified, in response to user feedback, to one that will work very well with Lianja's format. So I think your general statement will have to be tested by specific cases, to see whether it holds.
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>>One IDE will not work. Different IDEs are needed for different platforms. Trying to make one GUI work for desktop, web, mobile, and phone is misguided IMO. They are different at the core.