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December 20, 2005
Top Change of 2005
Top Change of 2005: After reading how others summarized 2005, here are my top choices... yes, I might be biased by how I spend my day and get the rent paid, but that doesn't automatically mean my points aren't right! ;-) The most important change this past year was the explosive adoption of Flash Player 8 -- reporters would naturally miss this, because the consumer audits haven't hit their quarterly publishing point yet and the company hasn't made a big deal of confirmed installs, but the traffic flow has exceeded even the most optimistic projections inside the shop. Millions of consumer machines have already received predictable, advanced visualization engines -- it has blown past Firefox and even Windows XP, all in stealth mode. In 2006 I think the world will start to recognize the important upgrade to clientside abilities that started here in late 2005....
Posted by John Dowdell at December 20, 2005 1:57 PM