Ah, interesting, do you have a source on this? I'm very interested to see how much emphasis they are going to place on the new HTML5 / app style of development.

I expect Win32 MFC, ATL etc., will live on forever in some form, but Windows 8 sounds like it will be a break hard towards the future, in an even stronger way than the move from Win32 / MFC to .NET was.

Windows 8 desktop to be 'just another app,' says Microsoft exec

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219680/Windows_8_des...