I was at Microsoft when Silverlight & XNA were the only supported platforms on Windows Phone 7. Less than a year after launch, just as some devs started writin

I was at Microsoft when Silverlight & XNA were the only supported platforms on Windows Phone 7. Less than a year after launch, just as some devs started writing windows phone apps, “we” decided to deprecate Silverlight and XNA in favor of WinRT for Windows Phone 8. Devs were just pissed and vowed to never touch Windows Phone after that. Also, all the customers that bought WP7 phones - they couldn’t upgrade to WP8, because “security”. These were the Microsoft fanboys and early adopters. I left Microsoft the following year. But it looks like they haven’t improved very much over the years.