In an attempt to make the operating system more finger friendly Microsoft seems to be getting ready to move away from plaform technologies such as Win32, COM, MFC, ATL, .NET, Silverlight, and WPF and instead start embracing web-based technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript to create immersive applications.



From Hardware 2.0:

First things first - Is Microsoft actually moving towards HTML and JavaScript? Well, we don’t know for sure but seems so. During the Windows 8 demo at D9, Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green, the person in charge of the Windows Experience, describes a new weather app and says “our new developer platform, which is, uhh, it’s based on HTML5 and JavaScript.” That’s confirmation from a high up source and there’s been no retraction from Microsoft since.

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