[pjmlp]

Sure, however I am with high hopes with WinRT, as it is what .NET should have originally been designed instead of the CLR detour.

If you look at what Delphi, Modula-3, Ada, Component Pascal, Oberon variants, Eiffel were already offering before Java took off.

> As soon as something starts working it gets replaced by something else.

Just like everyone else. I can hardly think of any platform owner that has kept their APIs stable.

Not that you are not right to complain, I just get the impression many tend to forget about the other vendors similar practices.

[titanix2]

I find this coming back from CLR to COM sad because the CLR support another very good language (F#) which isn't in WinRT and also because the CLR is going really multiplatform with .net core. Also too bad Microsoft didn't pursed a multiplatform framework like Silverlight and go with a solution that didn't even run on its own OSes (previous version of Windows).