This is more of an opinion poll/discussions type question.

What do you see as the long term future use/need of stand-alone executables will be? With what ASP.NET and JSP are able to do these days, I'm wondering if the need for EXEs will die one day, and with it a need for developers like ourselves, regardless of the language. The question is how soon? I like how MS is going for the total integration of web and exes, but I also see the possibility that MS will slowly stop developing tools to build non-html dependant applications and focus all of their energy on web stuff. I don't think maintenance and distribution of C/S apps will EVER be as easy as web-apps. Will the costs involved in supporting those apps eventually collapse the demand for developers.