>>> It's just that your sigh of relief that the era of rapid change
>>> is over is a bit premature. <g> My bet is that change will be rapid and
>>> accelerating.
>
>I disagree, in the sense that the objects surfaced by the .NET framework have the opportunity to shelter programmers from this rapid change in hardware of which (I assume) you speak.

The rapid change is not hardware, it is... everything.

We have gone from Dos to Windows to Client-Server to Internet to .NET to ??

My guess is that it is not in MS best interest to shelter us from the rapid change. Ever since Dos, MS seems to have a gift for profiting from change in the PC environment. Why would they want to slow down the rate of change?

Best,
Mike