http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/23/youth-and-experience/ TechCrunching the Enterprise Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:17:29 -0700 hourly 1 http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/23/youth-and-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-2702 Vez Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:27:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=263#comment-2702 Poetic as always. I just honestly don't see Microsoft having any influence right now. That is, unless Silverlight takes off. Even then, they are just a pawn like Adobe. Flash is ubiquitous but in many cases now it is just a proxy for JavaScript to get at the hardware. (And, of course, Adobe Reader is a joke.) The whole Mesh strategy is just Microsoft playing catch-up to where everyone else is with feeds and REST APIs. The real future power is whoever can unlock the full power of XMPP, and that would probably be Google or perhaps Facebook. Poetic as always. I just honestly don’t see Microsoft having any influence right now. That is, unless Silverlight takes off. Even then, they are just a pawn like Adobe. Flash is ubiquitous but in many cases now it is just a proxy for JavaScript to get at the hardware. (And, of course, Adobe Reader is a joke.) The whole Mesh strategy is just Microsoft playing catch-up to where everyone else is with feeds and REST APIs. The real future power is whoever can unlock the full power of XMPP, and that would probably be Google or perhaps Facebook.

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