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Joel,
I think there was one overriding reason that all software became Windows-based.
DOS was simply too primitive/clunky/'user-demanding' for millions of clerical-type staff and there was extreme variation between different application interface standards.
Windows addressed that, and most successfully too (at least for getting basic tasks done by rote).
>This discussion has me thinking about when businesses moved to Windows 3.x from DOS. To this day, I still don't really know why it happened. I don't think there were enough compelling business or technical reasons to justify the expense of the change. Most technical types I knew then didn't like it. I just remember reading magazines stating how all new development would be done in Windows. I thought "Why? What are they thinking? Who would want a system that brought my blazingly fast 286 to its knees and crashed every 10 minutes?" Nevertheless, it happened. Businesses spent a ton of money upgrading their systems to run Windows, and a lot of DOS developers eventually gave in because the businesses required it. So, why did it happen? Will the same forces play a part in .Net's fate?
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