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From Silverlight is Dead, Long Live XAML.

I’m surprised, because I never had the perception of Silverling taking off; although that it has seen better days it’s quite relative.

I’ve never used Silverlight, and I have a quite decent online life (that’s harder to say without Flash, for example), but the big news behind this is that Microsoft wants HTML5 and Javascript to be the main application platform in Windows 8. That sounds like screw you .NET developers!

I couldn’t care less about the next Windows version, but it’s true that Microsoft embracing a standard it’s been dangerous in the past. You know that embrace and extend motto.

I hope it doesn’t mean that we’re going to see standard HTML5/Javascript applications that work in Microsoft systems only.