By 'sea change' I'm not just referring to this instance, I'm thinking also of Silverlight and of Adobe's recent announcement about dropping Flash for mobile dev

By 'sea change' I'm not just referring to this instance, I'm thinking also of Silverlight and of Adobe's recent announcement about dropping Flash for mobile devices. There's also the fact that HTML5 is now a new focus for both companies (Windows 8, Adobe's authoring toolset).