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Microsoft to developers: Metro is your future

Time: 11:30 EST/16:30 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein

According to here are two classes of applications that can be built and run on Windows 8 PCs and tablets. One is “Metro Style” applications. These are the modern, immersive applications that are going to get front-and-center billing. (“Metro” is the name of the design language that Microsoft pioneered with Windows Phone 7.) Developers writing Metro Style apps can code them in C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, HTML5/JavaScript and/or using XAML. The inclusion of XAML here implies “Jupiter,” I’d say, even though Microsoft officials never used that codename during our prebrief yesterday. Jupiter is the XAML/UI layer on top of Windows 8 that enables Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) apps to work on the platform.