HTML 5 or Silverlight 5, which will Microsoft choose for the next O/S

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I have gotten a lot of questions around this: HTML 5 seems to be the choice for Microsoft in the next version of Windows O/S.  Yes that is exactly the clause that many people seem to be focused on.  Really?  Microsoft is going to support HTML 5.  It supports HTML 4.  Silverlight is a product that works with BROWSERS, got that?  Browsers.  Not all Operating Systems are browsers, although a browser could be an O/S.

Here is how deep you need to go:

  • Does HTML 5 work in browsers? Yes
  • Does Silverlight work in browsers? Yes
  • Could HTML 5 be used as a forms tool in a client? Yes
  • Could Silverlight 5 be used as a forms tool in a client? Yes
  • Could VB 6 still be used as a forms tool in a client? Yes

Bottom line: You will need to learn HTML 5 to work with Android, iOS, with Windows based products you will have a large range of tools that you can use with the products that run on Windows 7, Windows <<Whatever number you want to put here>>, Windows Phone 7 and so forth.

Microsoft has not rejected supporting Silverlight for HTML 5, it has some tools to support HTML 5, such as Intellisense.