# Prediction: SharePoint won’t be on your Metro ‘wall’

> Microsoft looks set to base its enterprise apps on HTML5 frontends, but don’t expect SharePoint vNext to become a Metro Wall + WinRT app.

Source: https://ali.id.au/blog/sharepoint-no-winrt/ (last edited 2026-10-16)

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Judging by [reports from Convergence](https://web.archive.org/web/20120321202931/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-shows-off-windows-8-business-app-concepts/12189), it looks like Microsoft will be basing its enterprise products on HTML5 frontends. So, time to break out the [Build conference videos](https://web.archive.org/web/20120312220813/http://buildwindows.com/) and learn WinRT right?

Well… Yeah. But don’t expect it to help much when it comes to SharePoint! We know that SharePoint vNext will have a Metro look and feel, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that SharePoint will be joining Dynamics as a Windows-only ‘Metro Wall’ application. SharePoint has far too many legacy restrictions to become a pure Metro Wall + WinRT app. Reality check time:

* Development of SharePoint 15 is a huge effort, probably started well before WinRT was spec’d.
* Office 365 is sold as a cross-browser, cross-environment solution. It can’t rely on Windows 8 features. It has to work on Macs, Windows XP, etc.
* Office vNext doesn’t live inside the Metro Wall: it will be a desktop app.

So… hold up, and in the mean time, check out this neat client-side app stack diagram from the “Single Page Applications” guidance @ [www.asp.net](https://web.archive.org/web/20120322004304/http://www.asp.net/ "asp.net")).

![ASP.net Client-side Single Page Application Stack](spa-clientstack-e2b3e3.png "ASP.net Client-side Single Page Application Stack")

A client-side application stack diagram from Microsoft.