Sorry for nitpicking, but COM is in no way out - it forms the basis for WinRT. Also COM in itself doesn't have much to do with dynamic typing - sure there is ID

Sorry for nitpicking, but COM is in no way out - it forms the basis for WinRT. Also COM in itself doesn't have much to do with dynamic typing - sure there is IDispatch which allows your code to be called from dynamic languages, but that's about it.