Of course it'll be important. You can only do so much with HTML and Javascript. And I do not look forward to creating complex apps with lots of Javascript. It's just too spaghetti code-like, tough to debug, hard to find the right script in a complicated page, and it's just slow compared to other options. That will make release schedules even worse.


>Just not nearly as important as many developers thought it once was. MS is moving to open standards just like the rest of the industry (no matter how much they don't really want to).