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by int_19h
74 days ago
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> In the name of winning over new or inexperienced Windows developers with "simpler, safer" projections, we in the Windows division almost completely failed for about 5 years to document or even explicitly say that WinRT was essentially just "COM: The Good Parts, Version 2012". I'm the person who wrote this StackOverflow answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7416826/how-does-windows... You might note that I had to forcibly reiterate that, no, Win8 apps don't have to be written in HTML/JS, because people genuinely got that impression from what they saw at BUILD back then. It's not that the "COM 2.0" and the "this also works on .NET" parts were completely missing, but they (.NET especially!) were de-emphasized to the point where it genuinely created confusion and alarm among the developers. And, ss far as I can tell, this was entirely Sinofsky's idea, and one that he still refuses to admit was an epic failure. |
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