As you probably will know: HTLM5 is already faantastic and will be even more fantaaastic in the future. And if you didn’t know this, you know it right now because I tell it you right here and right now.
Microsoft is also committed to HTML5. Of course, they want to sell and push IE9.
Nevertheless, HTML5 probably will be the next hype killer technology. So, in the unlikely event that you can understand Dutch you should listen and see for your self in this podcast.
In fact, there are people that believe that HTML5 is so promising that it probably will blow Silverlight away soon. Thus, that means that Silverlight will be doomed. There are also people in this non virtual world who believe that Silverlight is WPF vNext, thus WPF will also be dead (soon). On first glance, you could think this is some kind of domino effect. A cascading delete, so to speak.
Lastly, there are also people that are afraid to abandon MFC because of this doom say. Why should we invest in new technology that is doomed to be dead in the (near) future. Sounds feasible, right?
MFC is about 20 years old. Can you believe that there are people who are afraid of abandon MFC? Can you believe that there are people that do not want to invest in new technology as young as WPF?
Yes, we can!
Maybe this sounds a little weird to the innovators and early adaptors amongst us, but not to the late majority and laggards (according to the innovation theory of Rogers). Laggards only will embrace new technology when they are forced to. That pops up a new question: how-to get inertia and laggards in motion.
Maybe we should investigate that in the near future!
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