Microsoft Welcomes Windows 8 : Looks Amazing!!

[SamuelRSmith]

Rainbird said:

SamuelRSmith said:

Rainbird said:

I hope we get to make apps in other things than HTML5 and JavaScript though...

Yeah, from the wording he used, I took it to mean that they've added support for these kind of development environments, meaning that other applications will also work.

Thing is, why would you want to use anything other than HTML5 and Javascript? They're easy, powerful, and just about every device out there will support the technologies. There's pretty much nothing else out there which has all of these pros.

It's mostly a preference thing, but I hope they at least have Silverlight support too. It would seem very odd not to have that, and I would much prefer working in Silverlight.

And I can definitely see why they chose webbased technologies. Not needing to design your software to run on several architechtures is a huge boon to developers. My only worry is that the integrated desktop environment is too jarring compared to the front experience, and it would be nice if desktop applications could be run more seamlessly with the touch experience.

Having a Steam app where you can launch into your games without needing to go into the desktop environment would be much nicer than launching Steam in the desktop and then launching your games from there. I know it's just a usability thing, but it's really thorn in my eye right now.

Here's hoping we can have a nice solution though, because the touch interface looks wicked awesome!

Well, Steam could be done entirely in web technologies, so a Steam tile would be possible with/without supporting any other technology (of course, there will have to be some custom js function for launching applications).

And, yeah, Silverlight support is a given, I'd say. (unless Microsoft drops Silverlight entirely...)