Biggest part of announcement was the HTML+JS part. Let that sink in- HTML+JS is now the premier way to write Windows apps. Who would have thought this day would come?
HTML+JS calling into Windows APIs, is more likely what this is, rendering rich widgets ala ASP.NET controls. I'm willing to bet money on it.
And at that point, who cares? Different development toolset. Same lock-in.
And let me know when the day arrives when you can develop and run platform-neutral apps in Mac,iOS or in fact Linux. Don't be unreasonable. Thanks.
I didn't say it wouldn't be developer friendly. I'm saying that it really makes no difference that they are using HTML+JS if, like WebOS, they have tight coupling to the native OS API.
Also, I didn't say they would use ASP.NET controls, but something similar - rich controls backed specifically by the OS.
My point stands: Different developer toolset - same vendor lock-in.
I hope they have a tooling story around HTML5. I wonder if that chart in the demo was done in canvas or photoshop.
Forget rumors that Microsoft is going to buy Nokia or RIM. Looks like MS is going to buy Palm from HP.
I haven't been this excited about a windows release in a long long while ... I hope Microsoft doesn't botch this
It remains to be seen if the other benefits of JavaScript carry over to Windows 8 enough that it's worth using it to code desktop apps. As for botching it, I suspect that Windows 8 will be a not-very-good «experimental» thing like Vista and Windows 9 will be what Windows 8 should have been in the first place.