[davidguda]

"one of the things that makes me steaming mad is how the entire field of web apps ignores 100% of learned lessons from desktop apps" Not perhaps 100% but sure, in the modern age of web apps for everything I miss having proper desktop apps.

Even more so, programming web apps is nowhere near as convenient as developing desktop apps in late 90's with tools like Delphi.

[fwsgonzo]

I remember that. It was very easy.. I sort of have that same feeling with .NET, but I wonder if it's still going to be a layer on top of windows C system functions which might just be wrappers for system calls, which require an expensive context switch.

One big difference between win95 and now is the security aspect. Another big difference is the tons of services running on Windows 10 now that is always there (such as YourPhone). On Android for some vendors you are forced to use FaceBook and it can't easily be removed.