As I was eating breakfast here in Paris, I was thinking more about Jon's theory of Levers and Fulcrums . Originally, I'd been thinking about the appeal of AJAX vs. its capability to create a really smart client experience. But Jon got me thinking in a...

Jon is now trying to explain why AJAX is interesting so that I can understand it. His analogy is that AJAX is a lever sitting on a fulcrum and that people are using Google Maps and not things like MSN maps because Google Maps are more programmable; he...

Over the weekend, Mary Jo Foley (Microsoft Watch) asked me, “What does it mean that something is IN WinFX, but may or may not be IN Longhorn?” I have to admit that answering this question was more difficult than I wanted it to be. Folks at Microsoft...

Why are we settling for degraded UI?...