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IMVHO it's more an subset of the Windows Vista API / .Net Framework / Microsoft-javascript-specific-functions that can be used on older operating systems or small devices, to bring the Vista look-n-feel and experience to others users.

X11 really is just a display client/server architecture. And also, it will surley be available only to Microsoft softwares and Microsoft operating system, can you really speak of "cross-platform"?

This is also lead to the issue raised in the previous post: web content that become more microsoft specific if people start to use that.

Again all this said IMVVVHO.

Edited 2006-03-22 08:29

This is also lead to the issue raised in the previous post: web content that become more microsoft specific if people start to use that.

You won't have to worry about that, the net and content will remain very much the same as it is now - maybe with some more of that god awful flash, but pretty much the same.

Now, in terms of application service providers, and Office being provided on line, and given how XAML can be rendered within a webbrowser, the issue won't be so much 'proprietary web content' but 'proprietary code' as the front end to Microsofts application services.

With that being said, however, one could argue that if you were going to run a Microsoft online service through your webbrowser, one would also assume within the same breath that you would also be running Windows.

What needs to occur is the need to implement these technologies, or atleast in the case of wine, allow .NET 2.0/WPF and the likes to run under wine, along with IE 7 etc. if there is going to be a fighting chance for people to be able to access those Microsoft services with non Microsoft operating systems.