Summary
Daniel Buchner (@csuwildcat), former Mozillian & Program Manager at Microsoft takes us through the plans for Web Components at Microsoft. Daniel is the creator of the Web Components free open source library, X-Tag which Microsoft is now officially supporting and using as of release 1.5. How are the teams at Microsoft using Web Components now and what is the plan for the future?
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Resources

X-Tag - http://x-tag.github.io/
X-Tag on Github -  https://github.com/x-tag/core
Manifold.js - http://manifoldjs.com/
Vorlon.js - http://vorlonjs.com/
Microsoft Edge - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge
Modern.ie Platform Status for Web Components - https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/status/?filter=f3f0000bf&search=webcomponents
Facebook React - https://facebook.github.io/react/   
Jake Archibald & Daniel on Twitter chatting about React - https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/663011382468612096
Polymer Micro - https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/blob/master/polymer-micro.html
Component.kitchen article - https://component.kitchen/blog/page/1
Steal.js - http://stealjs.com/
Babel.js - https://babeljs.io/
Webpack - https://webpack.github.io/
Erik’s slides from NationJS - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HxPQNMtoTM_CBLjkC-khiQ_o556WRHj6XkQ2FZXJlL4/edit?usp=sharing
Microsoft User Voice - https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-developer

Panelists

Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies
Wilson Page (@wilsonpage) - Senior Engineer at Mozilla & Web Components Champion