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Microsoft leaning towards the HTML5 side of the fence

Reports are flying in all across the news sources that Microsoft is making a clear shift towards HTML5 and away from Silverlight. HTML5 received a huge push earlier this year when Apple declared the standard as their preferred rich client platform for the iPad and iPhone over Adobe Flash.

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Nov 1, 2010
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Reports are flying in all across the news sources that Microsoft is making a clear shift towards HTML5 and away from Silverlight. HTML5 received a huge push earlier this year when Apple declared the standard as their preferred rich client platform for the iPad and iPhone over Adobe Flash.

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