Every Second Windows Counts

After frightening us with announcement of at least eight different version of Windows 8, latest news from Microsoft are a bit more sensible: there will be only four. It is doomed anyway.

Windows 8 Has a Lot of Apps Already

"There's an app for that", says old iPhone commercial, and yes, today's mobile world is unimaginable without apps and stores. Success of platform is measured by the size of its "ecosystem", and many wonder is Windows 8 coming too late to create one.

But why do we have apps in the first place? Before smartphone boom, we had applications on desktops so it makes sense to have them on mobile. However, there is one important step between: web applications. Dynamic HTML applications are replacing more and more of traditional desktop applications and they are becoming better at it. Heck, most of mobile application that I use have web counterparts that are even better. So why apps?