This blog title was influenced by this posting (which is a must read IMHO).

On a monthly developer ISV update call, the Microsoft evangelist suggested that Silverlight has a five year life span and that picking up HTML5 and Javascript would be easy for our C#/Silverlight development team.  WTF!!!

Microsoft pushing HTML5 is like Sun pushing Java.  The logic goes something like this: Let’s create a virtual machine that allows programs to be run on any hardware (so you don’t need to buy Sun hardware) vs. Let’s support a virtual machine that allows programs to be run on any operating system via a browser (so you don’t need to buy the Windows OS).

I am confused and horrified.  Microsoft needs to remove the FUD on September 13th at the BUILD conference.