Great post on CNET.com featuring comments by Microsoft’s platform evangelist Walid Abu-Hadba., who boldly states that he doesn’t “believe they have the assets or the organizational structure” to really support a general web platform, apparently referring to Adobe Flash, Flex, and Air efforts.
The article also mentions:
“For his part, Abu-Hadba said he doesn’t wonder if Silverlight [...]

According to an Information Week article, apparently one of the benefits of the upcoming Google Chrome OS will be Google’s push to spread adoption of standards which allow for communication between the web layer (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and dekstop and mobile devices. For example, it’s possible that with HTML 5 and JavaScript, a web [...]

One of the very important considerations for customer-facing apps is the cleaning up of user input, before it goes into a database or interacts with other code within the network. This diminishes the options a malicious user has  for entering destructive code.
The current platform which I am designing really needs a robust front-end “sanitizing” process [...]