Nice, I used to work for MS too :). I actually went the JS route because of my skillset. I was was web-dev before I joined MS and never got into XAML much. Th

Nice, I used to work for MS too :). I actually went the JS route because of my skillset. I was was web-dev before I joined MS and never got into XAML much. The JS platform was pretty stable from the initial public release, I guess that's because it is built on top of IE which has been around much before Win8 came along.