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.

Apps that use the “new Windows” approach to programming will be built in HTML and JavaScript, said Windows president Steven Sinofsky at D9’s Windows 8 announcement today. Windows 8 will run ...

While Microsoft embraces HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8, outside developers wonder about Silverlight and .Net Thanks to two brief demonstrations of Microsoft’s next-generation operating ...

Ars Technica says Microsoft's apparent shift of focus toward HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8 coding has got Windows developers in an uproar.

Hearing that Windows 8 would use HTML5 and JavaScript for its new immersive applications was, therefore, more than a little disturbing to Windows developers. Such a switch means discarding two ...