Google and WebM

I have the Firefox 4 beta installed which supports WebM. Therefore, I thought I would go to YouTube and see how it worked. YouTube insists I install Flash. Google, if WebM is the baseline, when will YouTube support it?

At this point it looks like John Gruber is right. Flash is required to watch video.

Back To Windows

After seeing Paul Thurrott's Windows Everywhere article and John Gruber's response I have been wondering if Windows 8 will be Microsoft's version of Back to the Mac. In other words is the plan to take elements from the Windows Phone UI and add them to the Windows 8 UI. This is what could be the idea for the latest project code named Jupiter as discussed in Mary Jo Foley's article More on Microsoft 'Jupiter'.

Windows Phone 7 looks like a good start and in the same way that the Mac App Store is adding to the appeal of the Mac. A Windows App Store with Silverlight/Phone 7 like applications could energize Windows development which certainly could do with some excitement.