On Friday, September 16, 2011 1:01:13 PM UTC+2, fabrizio.giudici wrote: > > The real reason is Microsoft pathetically trying to exclude competitors > and competing technologies, trying to impose HTML5 for everything. > They also exclude their own technology - Silverlight doesn't run in Metro IE either<https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-browsing-and-plug-in-free-html5.aspx>. And since when is shipping a proprietary technology like Flash better than shipping standards like HTML5? With Windows 8, each important mobile platform (Android, iOS, Windows 8) follows the same pattern: native apps with an app store and HTML5. To me, that's a win.
> Then, maybe HTML5 for Windows 8 metro will "slightly" differ from plain > standard HTML5 as they did for Java, of course only with the purpose of > "supporting Windows 8 more efficiently". > This could happen, but Microsoft has much less power than it had five years ago: - More smartphones are being sold than PCs these days, and only 1-5% of them have IE. People browse a whole lot less on smartphones than on PCs, though. - On the PC side, IE has less than 50% marketshare in Europe and probably less than 70% in all other regions. - By the time the first competitive Windows tablet arrive in Q3/2012, consumers may already spend more money on tablets than on PCs (in H1/2012 in Germany, consumer spending was one third on tablets and two thirds on PC). And Metro is a consumer pitch - it will take years until enterprises move to Windows 8 (Windows 7 just surpassed ten-year-old XP in enterprise usage), and even then they can switch of Metro altogether to focus on their legacy apps. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/uBgdWXy7encJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
