To be fair, MS was seemingly riding the CE-train into the grave up until the day they pulled back the curtain on Metro. So it's not unthinkable that they might

To be fair, MS was seemingly riding the CE-train into the grave up until the day they pulled back the curtain on Metro. So it's not unthinkable that they might have another tablet group either adapting Metro or starting fresh and this is just the choked sputters of work that was started back before it was obviated by modern tablets.