The JQuery Foundation is morphing into the JS Foundation to provide mentoring and technical governance for a multitude of JavaScript-based open source development projects.

Microsoft is guiding developers toward HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8 app development. It turns out the company also is pushing these Web technologies as key to extending Office 15 and Office 365.

There are already several open web software languages such as CSS, W3C, Web GL, JavaScript, SVG, etc and now they intent to make HTML5 the foundation for the open web.