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Windows 8 is giving developers one more option: In tablet mode you can write the UI part of the application (the widget) in HTML5 and JS. Author's profile: (Mi

Windows 8 is giving developers one more option: In tablet mode you can write the UI part of the application (the widget) in HTML5 and JS. Author's profile: (Microsoft Contributor) "Peter Bright dropped out of university (after about five minutes) to work as a software developer writing C++ and C#." After reading that article I propose that he must have also spent another 5 minutes programming before deciding on his new career path of writing sensational crap.

nigelsampson 15y ago
This seems the most likely option in my opinion. A lot of panic and scaremongering based off a few snippets. I imagine we'll see other ways to build into the tablet UI apart from html5/js.
- ElliotH 15y ago
  Read the article to the end. It says almost exactly this.
johns 15y ago
Do you know that as fact or are you speculating?
- ericflo 15y ago
  Rampant speculation is exactly what the author of the article is doing, I don't see why it can't go both ways :)
eropple 15y ago
I know Peter personally, and he is one of the more well-educated, intelligent, and astonishingly competent developers I know. Nice flamebait, though.
- powertower 15y ago
  I read the article one more time, it does seem to be much more lucid now. I'll attribute my bad interpretation of it on the fact I read it very late last night - when it seemed to me he was saying that HTML5+JS was replacing .NET and WPF. He still makes some absurd claims though: "... they were told that all their experience, all their knowledge, and every program they have written in the past would be useless on Windows 8" Flamebait. FUD. Just look at the comments there.
  - eropple 15y ago
    He was saying, I think, that that was the public perception. I'm pretty confident, though I obviously don't speak for him, that that's not his own opinion. At the end of the article, he seems to make that clear.
  - marshray 15y ago
    I was a Win32/COM/MFC developer at the time Microsoft announced .Net. The joke at the MS Dev Conference at the time was that everybody in the room just had their salary drop 20%. Perhaps the only reason a shift in Win app development tooling isn't such a big deal today is simply that MS does not have the clout that they did back then. Windows 8? Seriously, it's many years off before anybody (including MS) going to try to make a profit on a shrinkwrapped app that doesn't run on Windows XP. But there are nevertheless a great many developers who've hitched their wagon to MS as a career path. They're understandably antsy as they watch all the hot demand go for iPhone/Android/tablet development. This would explain a lot of the angst I think.

nigelsampson 15y ago

This seems the most likely option in my opinion. A lot of panic and scaremongering based off a few snippets. I imagine we'll see other ways to build into the tablet UI apart from html5/js.

ElliotH 15y ago
Read the article to the end. It says almost exactly this.

johns 15y ago

Do you know that as fact or are you speculating?

ericflo 15y ago
Rampant speculation is exactly what the author of the article is doing, I don't see why it can't go both ways :)

eropple 15y ago

I know Peter personally, and he is one of the more well-educated, intelligent, and astonishingly competent developers I know. Nice flamebait, though.

powertower 15y ago
I read the article one more time, it does seem to be much more lucid now. I'll attribute my bad interpretation of it on the fact I read it very late last night - when it seemed to me he was saying that HTML5+JS was replacing .NET and WPF. He still makes some absurd claims though: "... they were told that all their experience, all their knowledge, and every program they have written in the past would be useless on Windows 8" Flamebait. FUD. Just look at the comments there.
- eropple 15y ago
  He was saying, I think, that that was the public perception. I'm pretty confident, though I obviously don't speak for him, that that's not his own opinion. At the end of the article, he seems to make that clear.
- marshray 15y ago
  I was a Win32/COM/MFC developer at the time Microsoft announced .Net. The joke at the MS Dev Conference at the time was that everybody in the room just had their salary drop 20%. Perhaps the only reason a shift in Win app development tooling isn't such a big deal today is simply that MS does not have the clout that they did back then. Windows 8? Seriously, it's many years off before anybody (including MS) going to try to make a profit on a shrinkwrapped app that doesn't run on Windows XP. But there are nevertheless a great many developers who've hitched their wagon to MS as a career path. They're understandably antsy as they watch all the hot demand go for iPhone/Android/tablet development. This would explain a lot of the angst I think.