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People are still surprised that people write software that runs on Windows, really?

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Moving on from Windows is taking longer than we thought, but will happen a lot sooner than you think.

Most new applications live in the browser (even MS Office and Intuit Quickbooks) or on your smartphone/tablet.

Shrug. No rush from my side of the room. I have found developing Windows application and web apps on the MVC .Net stack to be quite enjoyable.

Will the servers be running Mono instead of .Net, or are parts of the site being rewritten in a different language?

What about the databases?

I'm a unix fanboy, but I hear MSSQL is best in class, comparable with postgresql and maybe contending with oracle a little.

To say the new MS Office lives in the browser is a bit of an overstatement. There is some support in SkyDrive and SharePoint for opening Office documents in-browser, (in some cases, I think requiring Internet Explorer), but it's feature limited.

Office 2013 is very much a Windows Desktop program. And now a Windows RT App, too.

How about Office 365?

I don't know much about it. It appears to be a combination of hosted Exchange and SharePoint and Office Web Apps, and optionally Office desktop programs which you can launch from the cloud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_365#Office_app...

The fact that some plans include the full desktop apps makes me think the web app versions are not intended as full featured replacements. Or at least are not that capable today.

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