This does remind me of the "no-native-.NET-support" Windows Sidebar attempt. It failed in the end, but even there one of the first things we did was find a way

This does remind me of the "no-native-.NET-support" Windows Sidebar attempt. It failed in the end, but even there one of the first things we did was find a way to host .NET elements in the sidebar (and it was possible, but you had to jump through many hoops). We will have to wait and see, but I can't imagine there will not be a way to host Silverlight in one of the tiles. Also this whole "every app is going to be html + javascript" does remind me of the earlies Apple IPhone developer offerings.