Why Windows® 8 Chooses HTML 5 over Visual Basic and Java® Script?
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HTML 5 got popular ever since Apple had refused to support Flash in its iPhone 4 in favor of the former, last year. Since then there has been a dramatic shift from technologies like .Net, Visual Basic, C#, and JavaScript to something much more web friendly like HTML 5. So, why is this shift necessary for Microsoft, especially when it comes to developing a next generation operating system?
Well, the answer lies in the Windows 8 interface itself. With the debut of the Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has shifted the design in its next upcoming operating system to a one based on tiled interface. If you have seen the demo of Windows 8 by Windows President Steven Sinofsky on June 1, you may have been surprised at the massive overhaul that Microsoft has come up with in terms of the deign interface.
Since Windows 8 operating system will be designed on a web-based experience in which the apps and users profile will be directly linked to the Internet, Microsoft decided to opt for HTML 5. In the Windows 8 demo you might have also noticed the seamless navigation of Windows 8 operating system, which does not take much time to move from one menu to the next, unlike Windows Aero features. HTML 5 adds to this fluidity of the seamless navigation and makes it easier for a user to use the touch screen interface to navigate.
Microsoft also has big hopes to directly implement the Windows 8 experience on portable devices, like tablets. This seems to be one reason why HTML 5 might do wonders for Microsoft.
Microsoft will use HTML 5 because they found out how to make animations work more fluid using it? Is that the reason? Seems they realized that to keep up with competitors and offer a better product they have to gave up on their own languages. I’d like to know who’ve finally convinced Microsoft to KISS to delivery a better product.
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