most facile outliner

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 15, 2012 at 01:50 PM

I concur that it’s actually a good time for Windows software. I believe that many people (myself among them) were turned off by the uselessness of Vista, and began exploring other platforms—most turned to Mac, I turned to Linux. This may have included some developers.

When Windows 7 came out I was quite impressed: stability and performance were made available with reasonable hardware. So Windows have remained my platform of choice (with Linux providing an acceptable backup) and I have stopped shying away from non-cross-platform applications. In this respect, I am quite happy by the options provided by WIndows-only programmes still actively developed like ConnectedText, Sense, UltraRecall and Zoot, and most optimistic by the growing number of cross-platform apps like TreeSheets, TheBrain and Evernote.

Most importantly though, I do not believe that there is a dilemma between Windows/desktop and web applications. Both are now required and I maintain that applications that do not become web aware in this interconnected world have little future to hope for. I love the simple model with which an ecosystem of desktop and mobile applications has grown around the Simplenotes syncing service; in short, you don’t need to have Evernote-size funding to ensure cross-compatibilty—there’s many a developer out there looking for other apps and services to link their programme too, making it far more compeititive an attractive.