Quote Originally Posted by Elysia View Post
Not to mention they love to use complicated and deprecated technologies such as COM.
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I'm rooting for the new Metro API to take root and become the standard for the future.
(The UI sucks IMO; but the API itself is a huge leap of bounds from the old C API.)
I don't think you understand WinRT, which is no longer termed Metro (due to another company using the name).

WinRT is a COM based API and is built on the WIN32 API. So I fail to see how COM is depreciated, nor how WIN32 can be made redundant.

Personally I just use the right tool for the task at hand, regardless of my feelings towards the company that made it (and I find WIN32 and COM easy to use/understand).