People are weird. XAML is very much alive and part of the new universal app model. The have also extended the HTML and JS app model where any website can basic

People are weird. XAML is very much alive and part of the new universal app model. The have also extended the HTML and JS app model where any website can basically declare the capabilities they want to use and be published as an app in the store. They give you some boilerplate to detect that you are running in an app host so that you know when you can call system features like the camera or whatever. It's literally never been easier to write a windows app...