From a couple of articles I've read, this is an "attack Apple where they are weak" approach. If Windows developers develop for HTML5, their apps will run on Microsoft Enterprise servers (an area where Apple is weak), and show up on IPhones. It's a way of fouling Apple's soup, of loosening their hold controlling the iPhone apps.

Both Google and Microsoft are making the same bet: that the app in the browser will win the war. Given that most of my day when not developing is spent in a browser doing something, this being a very small part of my day but obviously in a browser, I think that's a good bet.

Hank



>>Silverlight is now a developer tool for WP7, not THE solution for crossplatform development.
>>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834
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>Oh, boy. This sounds so, so, oh so familiar. I think the entire Microsoft organization has a severe case of Attention Deficit Disorder, and hence they can't stay focused on any one thing long enough to make it perfect. Or if they do, they usually kill it anyways, sometimes at the height of perfection.
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>The idea of demoting SL to a Windows 7 development tool is absurd, considering how much work has gone into making it a great cross-platform web and desktop development tool. Maybe something got lost in translation in that article. Maybe I'm an eternal optimist.