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Based on the image below, and what I have seen written on most blogs in reaction to it and what MS has been saying, it seems that WinRT is assumed to be a sort-of an updated CLR/.NET for writing ...

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At Build in September 2011, Microsoft put out an architecture diagram, which in Microsoft circles has become either famous or infamous depending on your perspective. The diagram shows Windows Runtime ...

It's been months (almost 11) since Microsoft introduced its new developer platform, anchored by the WinRT application programming interfaces, at the Build conference in September 2011. That updated ...

Will WinRT thrive in the guise of UWP, or are we looking at a repeat of the demises of Silverlight and ActiveX? With the start of the Build conference a day away and the official Microsoft Build app ...

Windows 8 marks the beginning of the new WinRT (Windows Runtime) computing era and the end of the WinNT era, according to a new Gartner report. The report said that the combination of the WinRT ...

Microsoft’s drift from the proprietary and toward the universal is making its mark on all aspects of Windows software development, including writing C++ software that uses the Windows Runtime (WinRT), ...

Some users are facing an issue in which they are not able to open Microsoft Store apps such as Photos, Calculators, Maps, etc. They are also not able to find the Microsoft Store. In fact, they even ...

Microsoft unveiled a preview of authoring support in an update to the C#/WinRT tool used to help C# developers more easily work with interfaces to the Windows Runtime, the underlying infrastructure ...