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If Flex had just been available a little sooner, it might have help with applications like Excel and Writely.

If Excel had been made in Flex originally, Microsoft wouldn’t have to change a thing. Their biggest challenge would be to create a business model that supported a web-friendly version of the product, but practically none of the code would need any sort of update to be ready for the web. Countless man-hours could be saved. The same comparison could be made between Writely, now Google documents, and Word; outlook and gmail, or yahoo mail, or even hotmail; Flickr and iPhoto, or just about any other desktop application that has an online equivalent.

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