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Rebuttal on the API War article!!
This is from Joshua Trupin’s weblog. He’s the executive editor of MSDN Magazine. He answers Joel Spolsky’s now famous “Microsoft lost the API Wars” post.
MSDN Magazine has a CAMP?

Today, I attending an MSDN event in town. We went over four topics:
1) SQL Server Reporting Services
2) Application Code Blocks
3) Visual Studio “Whidbey” 2005
4) SQL Server “Yukon” 2005
I gained some good knowledge from this event, and in the next four posts, I will go in depth on each topic.

Well, there is Google’s Gmail (1 GB), and then this week Yahoo decided to say..”Hey wait, instead of 4 MB, lets give our users 100 MB”…Now MSN is going to up the ante, but they haven’t said how much yet. BTW, all three of these are “free” web based email clients. You could always pay [...]

I stumbled across a very, very good article by Joel Spolsky on Microsoft and the “API War”. It discusses how Microsoft is not focused on developers as much as they say they are, and they aren’t focused on the desktop, even though they say they are. Very good reading.
How Microsoft Lost the API War