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Friday, June 18, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} On vacation next week -- Comment()
I'll be on vacation next week, and most probably will skip updating this weblog as well. I'm sure the family has lots of ideas for keeping me busy.
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Are Windows-only web services the new trend? -- Comment()
How Microsoft Lost the API War: "[The] Web user interface is about 80% there, and even without new web browsers we can probably get 95% there. This is Good Enough for most people and it's certainly good enough for developers, who have voted to develop almost every significant new application as a web application. Which means, suddenly, Microsoft's API doesn't matter so much. Web applications don't require Windows." But many web services are written in such a way that Windows is required. For example, here in Finland a lot of public discussion has been going on about the web site of the air carrier Finnair. A representative from the company stated in the biggest Finnish newspaper that you have to use a Windows client, "because it is the standard". I wonder this is a policy decision (cut costs by serving the biggest user group), or is this just a misunderstanding about what a standard means?
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