PaoloM... when you said "HTML/JS is just another way to write .NET apps," were you suggesting that their HTML/JS strategy will run on top of the CLR and will have full integration with .NET?  So, more of an HTML.NET and JavaScript.NET?

I'm ok with this.  And to be clear, I'm perfectly ok and would welcome a strategy that allows both .NET and plain ol' HTML/JS.  But none of this has been made clear from their announcements. I just don't want the choices to be HTML/JS running on top of IE's rendering engine, or classic Windows mode.  And I want a first-class tablet strategy that allows me to write C#/XAML running natively (via JIT) on the CPU, and not some javascript middleman compilation step that is doomed to be inefficient.