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In a post-PC era, HTML5 wins even on the PC

Monday, June 13, 2011 at 9:50AM

In a post late last night on Ars Technica, which focuses primarily on the impact on Windows developer, there’s a critical kernel:

Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green, in charge of the Windows Experience, briefly describes a new immersive application—a weather application—and says, specifically, that the application uses “our new developer platform, which is …. based on HTML5 and JavaScript.” [emphasis added]

The quote is at 3:45 in this video:

So, as we enter a post-PC era, beautifully illustrated by this post from Horace Dediu of Asymco, HTML5 dominates even on the PC:

References (3)

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Source: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8

by Peter Bright
Source: Microsoft’s Windows 8 Demo From D9

by Ina Fried on June 1, 2011
Source: First quarter PC forecast: Windows down 2%, Mac+iPad up 250%

by Horace Dediu

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