The official answers are: Standards based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/standards-based-web-plug-ins-and-silverlight/
Previewing Windows 8 http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/jun11/06-01corporatenews.aspx BUILDing a brighter future http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2011/06/01/building-a-bright-future.aspx - Matt > Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows > 8 > > Excerpt: > > When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week > ago, > the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user > interface looks clean, attractive, and thoughtful, and in a first for > a > Microsoft desktop operating system, it's finger friendly. But one > aspect of > the demonstration has the legions of Windows developers deeply > concerned, > and with good reason: they were told that all their experience, all > their > knowledge, and every program they have written in the past would be > useless > on Windows 8. > > Key to the new Windows 8 look and feel, and instrumental to > Microsoft's bid > to make Windows a viable tablet operating system, are new-style > full-screen > "immersive" applications. Windows 8 will include new APIs for > developing > these applications, and here is where the problem lies. Having new > APIs > isn't itself a concernthere's simply never been anything like this > on > Windows before, so obviously the existing Windows APIs won't do the > jobbut > what has many troubled is the way that Microsoft has said these APIs > will be > used. Three minutes and forty five seconds into this video, Microsoft > Vice > President Julie Larson-Green, in charge of the Windows Experience, > briefly > describes a new immersive applicationa weather applicationand says, > specifically, that the application uses "our new developer platform, > which > is, uhh, it's based on HTML5 and JavaScript." > > Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth. > > Windows developers have invested a lot of time, effort, and money into > the > platform. Over the years, they've learned Win32, COM, MFC, ATL, Visual > Basic > 6, .NET, WinForms, Silverlight, WPF. All of these technologies were, > at one > time or another, instrumental in creating desktop applications on > Windows. > With the exception of Visual Basic 6, all of them are still more or > less > supported on Windows today, and none of them can do it all; all > except > Visual Basic 6 and WinForms have a role to play in modern Windows > development. > > Hearing that Windows 8 would use HTML5 and JavaScript for its new > immersive > applications was, therefore, more than a little disturbing to Windows > developers. Such a switch means discarding two decades of knowledge > and > expertise of Windows developmentand countless hours spent learning > Microsoft's latest-and-greatest technologyand perhaps just as > importantly, > it means discarding rich, capable frameworks and the powerful, > enormously > popular Visual Studio development environment, in favor of a far more > primitive, rudimentary system with substantially inferior tools. > > Read more here: > http://arstechnica. com/microsoft/news> /2011/06/html5-centric-windows-8-leaves-microsoft-developers-horrified. > ars > > J > > - > It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I > have > learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. - Ronald > Reagan > > Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. - John L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338852 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
