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Adobe Systems is opening a new phase in the rich client wars, releasing code that could help developers change notions of what a PC interface looks like. The company is posting early code and a software development kit (SDK) for Apollo, its runtime engine for web-like applications running on a desktop without a browser. Apollo …

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  1. Andrew Booth

    Comparisons to other technologies perhaps wrong

    Why are you comparing Apollo to desktop widgets? Apollo is intended to build rich client applications, not just dashboard widgets. And the Microsoft technologies to compare it with are surely Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions and WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere). Further, you suggest that Microsoft limits UI design. Flex/Apollo are similar, with standard UI controls. This is hardly the case now with WPF based interfaces in Vista, with funky UI designs built in the Expression products. I feel this article missed out discussion of some key new technologies.

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  2. Robert Ramsay

    Another source of security troubles

    integrates with web services? Writes directly to hard disk? Terrific.

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