The scenario I keep hoping for is: ms buys xamarin, MIT licenses the entire xamarin cross platform ecosystem (while charging for build services like phonegap does), adds a "compile to html/css/js" feature so you can write your web frontend in c#.
This scenario leads to the following: C# wins as the "cross platform mobile language," window phone is the default first environment for cross platform apps, and as developers we get an elegant "write once* run everywhere" that's based on c#.
The asterisk: once plus ui customizations on each platform, so more like write (1 + (.1 * num_non_wp8_platforms)) times
Unfortunately, though I think these moves would make ms a dominating player in mobile and web for decades, I doubt they'll do this.
This scenario leads to the following: C# wins as the "cross platform mobile language," window phone is the default first environment for cross platform apps, and as developers we get an elegant "write once* run everywhere" that's based on c#.
The asterisk: once plus ui customizations on each platform, so more like write (1 + (.1 * num_non_wp8_platforms)) times
Unfortunately, though I think these moves would make ms a dominating player in mobile and web for decades, I doubt they'll do this.