Windows 8 Development

Microsoft recently gave the .NET Development world quite a scare by implying that their new development platform is based on HTML5 and Javascript when they unveiled their new Windows 8 Touch interface.

I for one don't believe that Microsoft will be throwing away 10 years of .NET development and experience and that most of the internet are jumping up and down for nothing. I happened upon this Ars Tecnnica piece which posits that, possibly, Windows 8 might just be the best development platform that we've seen yet. I don't believe we'll see the end .NET anytime soon and I also think that Microsoft is on the path to supporting more and more open source technologies.

They have to if they want to keep up.