Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for
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Interesting commentary. I pasted the summary below the link. It's hard to believe there won't be anything announced by Microsoft in the way of clarification of their developer roadmap until Build in September, but that might be the case.
... Microsoft remains silent. It's apparently happy for developers to think that HTML5 and JavaScript are the only option for immersive Windows 8 applications, regardless of the distress and damage this is causing. And the longer the company remains silent, the more convinced people will be that the reason that Microsoft isn't debunking the claims is because there's nothing to debunk: HTML5 and JavaScript really could be the whole story when it comes to immersive applications. If it isn't, the decision to say nothing is incomprehensible. Saying nothing can only hurt. Developers are losing faith in the platform today; waiting to September to set them straight is madness.
But Microsoft isn't stupid. Its messaging and PR around this issue may be crazy, and the way developers have responded is rational, but the company isn't going to alienate its enormous base of developers and force them to trash everything they've ever learned. Windows 8 will offer a new API, and you're not going to have to write webpages to use it.
The company may not have made any official statement about it, but leaks are coming out, and a picture is starting to emerge. The details aren't clear yet, but next time we'll take a look at the pieces of the puzzle we have, and we'll learn why Windows 8 won't be a HTML-driven horror after all.
