In case you haven't been following it, the new HTML 5 standard aims to replace some of the "rich" Web application functionality of Flash and Silverlight. Hmmm, this promises to be an interesting match-up. Flash is, of course, extremely well-established, and Microsoft is putting a lot of its considerable weight behind Silverlight. And IE is critical to the success of Microsoft's Azure platform.
Even if the HTML 5 standard propogates among Safari, Firefox, and other alternatives to Internet Explorer, the critical battleground will be IE. Microsoft might successfully ignore or downplay the new standard, if whizbang special effects were the only things in the W3C spec. However, HTML 5 also adds improvements for the performance of web applications, a benefit that's much harder for any browser developer to ignore.
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