Desktop Matters (TSE Day 4)

In the second session of the morning, I decided to attend the talk entitled Desktop Matters by Jim Moore. I didn't learn much in this presentation. He walked through the history of computers from a UI perpsective: mainframe to client server to web. He then went into UI technologies that are available today to build rich applications: Flex, Apollo, Silverlight, GWT, WebStart, etc. He had a couple of bullets points for each, but he didn't get into much detail in terms of what each does. I would've liked to have seen more in the way of the positives vs. negatives of each and some recommendations.