Re: Wired Front Page Story Features XAML ("Heir to HTML")

Gerald Bauer wrote:
>   What's your take? Do you agree with Josh that
> Microsoft has given up on HTML and Internet Explorer
> and wants to replace the Web's de facto standards with
> its WinFX XAML offering? 

    Well, what has Microsoft got to gain from better web standards 
support? Better standards support means that webmasters will start 
coding to W3C standards rather than to the IE browser, which in turn 
means that a greater number of pages will work and render properly on 
non-Windows browsers and operating systems. After a while, Microsoft 
would loose any influence on the web it currently enjoys.

    On the other hand, when companies cry about not being able to do 
things in IE, Microsoft can just tell them to use XAML. It may not 
completely replace the web, but it doesn't have to. They only need for 
enough of the web to become XAML to make it difficult for people not to 
use XAML and/or Windows. Once they do that, they can just wait until 
open source competition weakens to virtually nothing, then they can just 
transfer all the developers to other projects and put XAML in the same 
deep freeze IE has been in for years.


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