> Microsoft OS slide to irrelevance
I wouldn't call 75% of desktop share "irrelevant". Tablets are still 20 times less common than PCs. *
* data from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
I wouldn't call 75% of desktop share "irrelevant". Tablets are still 20 times less common than PCs. *
* data from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
It was a huge downgrade in interactive functionality at the time, but the Web has slowly built up over the past two decades so it is almost as functional.
This might be outside of your echo chamber, but lots of companies still very actively build desktop applications (also completely new ones) for their own line-of-business purposes.
Totally different inside the enterprise, one reason Borland & Embarcadero focused on it.