>>>However, the future is HTML 5.
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>Hmm it seems to me that just a few years ago, someone said that the future was Silverlight
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>It might be more precise to say "Microsoft has said that the future is HTML 5."
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That one I believe. All signs are that HTML 5 is going to be huge. Keep in mind that it is an industry standard (W3C), not a Microsoft standard or product.

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>It basically dead, but XAML lives on.
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>However, the future is HTML 5.