It gets worse - Silverlight is now the development story for WP7 while HTML/JS seems to be the premier way to write apps for Win8 (though I assume there'll be a

It gets worse - Silverlight is now the development story for WP7 while HTML/JS seems to be the premier way to write apps for Win8 (though I assume there'll be a way to get SL/C++ working with the new stuff - I'll be stunned if there wasn't). After almost two decades of Win32 being the best way to write apps across the Windows platform, that has been upended in a year or so. That's a big deal. But we now have two competing stacks on the phone vs tablets/PCs which can't be a good place to be. Disclaimer - I know no inside details of Win8 UI/development platform plans from my time at MSFT.