Developer is also improved because of tools. Microsoft has a lot of tools for their platform and Facebook has an API that allows you guys to do a lot of commonly-done things easily. Basically, you dun have to reinvent the wheel.

For the sake of some of your coursemates (and even your prof here) who may not be familiar with the S curve, would you mind explaining what you mean by the S curve?

I’m not sure I agree with you that Facebook is necessary stagnating. They are moving on to FB Connect, which will allow web apps to access social networks. I think this is a very powerful idea and people should think a little harder about how to exploit it.

You really can’t expect Windows to improve very much. If it doesn’t crash, it’s probably quite good already. But to be fair to Windows, it has a huge bunch of legacy-compatibility issues and also like two million devices to support. Personally, I think Microsoft is actually quite successful at reinventing itself and evolving with the times.

My view is that the next decade will be dominated by an epic battle between Microsoft and Google as they each try to muscle in on each others turf. It’s very exciting and offers opportunities. Where you guys can get involved is to work on stuff that are strategic acquisitions for either of these giants and you might get to retire early.

People have to believe that it’s possible ‘cos it is.