Microsoft doesn't care about non-WIndows devices for XAML, so no.

Linux on the desktop is dead. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/207999/desktop_linux_the_dream_is_dead.html I saw a new article about it this week, but can't find the link.

iOS will have impact. Apple has locked up the tablet market. Number two in the market is prime for the picking. Michael Dell is very upbeat about Win8 tablets.

Android has smart phones .. for now. All the patent litigation will be interesting. If Oracle wins their case against Google, all bets are off.

Windows PCs are still selling like hotcakes, despite iPad. Corporate apps continue to run on Windows and will far into the future. Microsoft's future of betting on the same Windows UI everywhere is interesting. The WP7 Metro UI has won many design awards. It's clean, easy to use, fast, fluid. Scott Adams picks it over Android and iPhone http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/windows_phone_challenge_result/

IMO, what will turn out to be the cross-platform language of choice will be HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Several companies are already using it to get around Apple's restrictive licensing. It's no longer about running on a device. With HTML 5, it really is all about the browser.


>Hi Craig,
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>Given the blood in the hallways, it would have been hard to miss the OS vs Windev entities. As Machiavelli reported, when the Prince is weak, the Lords will fight among themselves.
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>The problem for MS at this point is that the success of devices that do not run on MS has broken the spell: Windows is no longer seen as essential, no longer taken for granted as needed. Whether XAML integrates at the OS level to produce fluid animations is interesting, but too late. It could and should have been done years ago. Will the XAML UI run on Android? Run on iOS? Run on OSX? Linux? And will it utilize hardware acceleration on all these platforms? If the same answer ("no") to these questions turns out not to be the case, then there may be longterm hope for the .Net dev platform. In the meantime, I continue to hear of individuals dropping .Net in favor of other languages/framworks that run cross-OS and cross-device.
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>Hank