Nevertheless it's an enormous step toward unifying desktop apps and web apps. Is this a good goal, though? Web used to follow a certain model that worked well

Nevertheless it's an enormous step toward unifying desktop apps and web apps. Is this a good goal, though? Web used to follow a certain model that worked well and allowed people to develop websites easily. It grew. Then people wanted a more desktop-like experience. This resulted in development of new APIs and extensive use of JavaScript. We're moving farther and farther away from the original model. And now MS is going to reverse the gears, and use web-based tools for desktop development. Problem is, developing a web application right now it not much simpler than developing a desktop app. Sure, you get the benefits of no deployment, and instant updates, but this will not apply to "desktop" application in HTML anyway.