As for the rest, I was there for the ride since Windows 8, as I quite enjoyed .NET Native, C++/CX, and the idea WinRT being what .NET 1.0 should have been, as per Ext-VOS background.
Nicely covered on this Ars article,
https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt...
Instead, they managed to turn many of their advocates, into critics.
However many in the Windows developer community never thought the same way as we did, and WinRT adoption among the community never took off.
They killed a few years later.
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-office-mobile-apps-ge...
As for the rest, I was there for the ride since Windows 8, as I quite enjoyed .NET Native, C++/CX, and the idea WinRT being what .NET 1.0 should have been, as per Ext-VOS background.
Nicely covered on this Ars article,
https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt...
Instead, they managed to turn many of their advocates, into critics.
However many in the Windows developer community never thought the same way as we did, and WinRT adoption among the community never took off.