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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