toolman - 6:04 am on Feb 25, 2002 (gmt 0)

>>>Please note that this is saying what the USERS are using

A most definite nod towards M$ for the user friendly Windows platform that has brought us to where we are today. The web would not be as far as it is if the masses would've had to learn command line "trek-ese".

The future, however, looks to be more toward web enabled "appliances" (most likely wireless and handheld) that run applications based on the server side. I believe that desktop client OS wars are becoming a moot point.

We are at a critical point for web developers to embrace a standard for a server side language to communicate universally with all these "appliances". So far, from what little I understand about it, it looks like Java is the way to go. If it turns out that C# is actually a better implementation of OO programming then perhaps M$ will have defined yet another pathway to a revolution in computing.