>Now that Windows has announced it will be releasing Windows 8, which will run on a Tablet,
>I want to develop apps now that will port to Windows 8, and run on a Windows tablet.
>
>As Windows 8 is not out yet, I will have to develop for windows 7 now, but the eventual goal is to run apps
> locally on a Windows tablet (Without Internet connectivity all the time)
>
>Any ideas on which of the following technologies I should use now ?
>Windows Forms
>Web Forms
>Silverlight
>WPF
>A.N. Other ?
>
>TIA
>Gerard

There's actually a big tizzy on the interwebz about this now. Apparently MS lended a little too much attention to HTML5 and jQuery in a recent preview, and didn't give Silverlight enough attention. The sky is now apparently falling for Silverlight developers.

If I were you, I'd go the ASP.NET MVC/jQuery/CSS/HTML5 approach now as they are probably the safest, and keep your eyes on the Silverlight scenario.