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Lianja, opinions please
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05/02/2013 13:41:14
Victor Chignes
Inteliventas
Peru
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Third party products
Miscellaneous
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Not really. The web rendering of Excel office is far better than anything Google or Zoho can offer. Conditional formating, pivot tables, Sparklines, they have it all.
>If M$ can't get a decent web version of Office out, they might as well ki$$ it goodbye anyway. Google will gladly fill its $hoes. lol
>>
>>What I find confusing is that M$ is the one that pushed web development (using NET) as their major strategy whereas
>>once everything runs in browser they can kiss their Windows/Office monopoly good bye. At the end it will be their discontinued
>>products (apps written in VB , VFP etc) as only show stoppers for companies moving to other operating systems.
>>If major company app is converted to web app (be that NET or more likely something else) then what is there to stop them from
>>moving to Linux in some future? Some will say Linux flavors do not have good support ecosystem, but that might change.
>>Ever since Vista blunder, my 15 years old is using Linux. For these generations Linux/Android ring much more bells then
>>Windows/NET/Office. They learn NET development as part of colleges curriculums but web development is far from being M$ exclusive turf ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development ) youngsters are more likely to use NON-MS web dev tools and platforms
>>Consecutively, tomorrows working place might look quiet different in terms of apps/OS then it is today.
>>
>>>So the MS developer still is in the hot seat, hurrah! It's ironic that some of those who scoffed at VFP as MS foxed it, now depend on extremely unlikely arguments to justify clinging to NET.
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