The people who make desktop software are making themselves obsolete. When you start developing on the web, your default is to be smart, to interact and to be open (with other software and with your users). Desktop software (like Word) is insanely unaware of what I do, why I do it and who I do it with. Right now, the desktop folks have the momentum of the incumbent. Not for long. Time to hurry.

That's Seth Godin ranting about "dumb software". While I agree that most software is actually dumber than it should be, I'm skeptical whether that's gonna go away very soon.