Microsoft gives up on Silverlight
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Boz...I agree that mobile and apps will be important but disagree with your absolutist view of the future. This happens every few years on the web, people assume that because some or another trend is on the rise, that it will be the future of everything.
Remember Joost? Air on the desktop? Silverlight as a web plugin? Some things just fizzle out. Mobile apps on the other hand will be important, but they won't be everything.
Most people visit dozens of sites every day. They aren't going to want to buy apps for every single thing they do just for a slightly shinier experience. The desktop experience still makes the most sense for the majority of computing, therefore you'll have people using the regular web the majority of the time. Even on mobile, people will still browse the web just as much as they use apps.
As far as HTML5 being a "buzzword," that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. I guess you think you know better than the heads of Microsoft, Apple and Google, who are all banking heavily on it. But more to the point HTML5 is not only a rich media tool but simply the rest version of HTML. Positioning yourself against HTML5 is pretty silly.