title: Develop for Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 (Apollo)/Windows Phone 7 - WinRT (JavaScript) vs. Silverlight (C#)
body: <p>I am looking for the proper technology to start the <strong>Metro Windows 8</strong> application for tablet. The problem is that the application should run on <strong>WP7</strong> also and in the future on the <strong>WP8</strong> (Apollo). </p>
  
  <p>My assumption is:</p>
  
  <p>•   Silverlight is probably dead (even still supported in Windows 8)</p>
  
  <p>•   Silverlight as I think will not be supported on WP8 (Apollo)</p>
  
  <p>•   Even there will be still Silverlight support on WP8 I simply don’t want to use obsolete technology…</p>
  
  <p>•   WP7 will not allow upgrade to WP8</p>
  
  <p>For the Windows 8 Metro style application the only relevant choice seems to be the HTML/JavaScript, even there is possibility to use C#/C++ on the top of the WinRT. </p>
  
  <p>This I think is choice of future, even it means develop the application twice once in HTML for Windows 8 and Apollo and once in C#/Silverlight for WP7. </p>
  
  <p>Any other tips and suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot
  STeN</p>