However, Microsoft isn't necessarily logical It's not useful to think of it in terms of what "Microsoft is" or "Microsoft isn't". Microsoft is a very big place

However, Microsoft isn't necessarily logical It's not useful to think of it in terms of what "Microsoft is" or "Microsoft isn't". Microsoft is a very big place, and the internal power struggles are what shape it. In this case, it's Windows division under Steven Sinofsky versus Developer Tools division. DevDiv owns .Net, WinDiv is less keen on it, and they have IE9 now. Sinofsky is the one who came up with the "native html" non-sequitur at the mix11 conference. How do you start to try to get platform-specific coders to adopt a cross-platform lowest-common-denominator technology? Call it "native". If this is Kremlinology then so be it. it's the only way to make sense of MS. It's sad that their best technologies are used as ammo in internal battles.