I am trying to get my head round the new Windows 8 Runtime that is used to create Metro style apps. I know you can use it with XAML and it is based on .NET so C# and VB.NET can be used to write the apps, but then it seems to have something to do with HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript.
Can someone explain what it is in a few paragraphs, in terms that a .NET UI programmer can understand? (I am missing something “key” that is necessary to understand it.)
We all know that WPF, Silverlight, Windows Forms, etc. will keep working under Windows 8 (and Windows 10) on at least on Intel systems, so please don’t tell me that…