I have noticed in a few places discussions comparing the UI and API of WinRT
with Silverlight, and suggesting that it (WinRT) is preferable. Mostly,
these were quite old posts (a series of 6 or more at SharpGIS was my first
sense of this).
It does raise the possibility that Windows / Microsoft
I don't know much about the future of Microsoft because I suspect not many
INSIDE Microsoft themselves have a clear definitive handle on that (not to
sound jaded, i honestly do believe they are still haggling over how to
raise the broken into fixable solutions).
I would say this, the company has
