Quote Originally Posted by superbonzo View Post
do you have any reference to support this claim ? as far as I understood, winRT is not limited to metro style applications, it can be used as a full replacement of win32 to code usual window-like programs as well.
I don't have any references, but I doubt WinRT would be useful for traditional applications, since no doubt the GUI facilities are a key part of the API.

The other thing which I just recently found out, is that WinRT isn't really going to be a C++ API. It's going to be made using a technique similar to COM, and will make use of a proprietary extension to the language called C++/CX, which looks similar to C++/CLI. It adds ref new to the language, a version of new for refrence counted WinRT objects, and it adds ^ (carrot) pointer notation, for reference counted WinRT objects.

Not particularly hot on the idea of proprietary extensions to the C++ language. I didn't mind C++/CLI so much, because it had it's own obscure uses, but now they are actually encouraging everyone to use this.