Microsoft is considering implementing a HTML 5 solution onto the Xbox One, this move is only in its conceptual stages at the moment but Microsoft wants to put it in place so they can attract more developers to its Windows Phone platform.

This news comes in the wake of Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s phone division for $7.1bn , it also follows a decision to lower the annual fee for windows phone development.  Putting all of these changes together reveals one thing, that Microsoft wants to be the big contender against Apple and Google in the mobile phone market.

Microsoft’s EVP said in a sales meeting that “We want to offer the opportunity to build either HTML5 applications, or native applications that span all of those devices, enabling them to reach segments of users on those devices, users on a gaming console, and provide them with very unique opportunities to monetize their application investments,”.

It would also make sense for Microsoft to make this move with the Xbox One as the entire console acts as its own development kit, all you need to do is plug it into your PC, know what you’re doing and then you’re off.  The addition of HTML 5 on the Xbox one would then allow anyone with the console to effectively develop mobile applications for Windows phones as well as games for the Xbox One.

http://www.tntgamer.com/microsoft-wants-html-5-on-the-xbox-one/

This seems to be the continuation of M$ realizing they are now the small fish in the big pond of mobile(smartphones/tablets) computing. The high horse that they usually travel on has left the stable and they are scrambling to make sure they don't disappear.

The thing is, if this idea proves successful, MS will take and dust Apple and Google.

I would definitely buy a cell phone that is a part of the ecosystem of my other devices. I'll buy one game for all of them, download one app for all of them and communicate with all of them.

I agree. 

I have an iphone that the contract runs out at the end of October.  I plan to replace it with a Windows phone of some type.  At work, I replaced my PC with a surface pro back in Feb.  It has worked awesome as a pc and awesome as a tablet when needed.  I can't wait to have one ecosystem that runs everything.