<p>Am 25.06.2012 11:12 schrieb <<a href="mailto:michael.vancanneyt@wisa.be">michael.vancanneyt@wisa.be</a>>:<br>
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> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Sven Barth wrote:<br>
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>> Am 24.06.2012 22:59 schrieb "Juha Manninen" <<a href="mailto:juha.manninen62@gmail.com">juha.manninen62@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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>>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sven Barth <<a href="mailto:pascaldragon@googlemail.com">pascaldragon@googlemail.com</a>><br>
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>>>> I believe they'll mostly go through the WinRT, which is Microsoft's new<br>
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>>> Thanks. I didn't even know about this WinRT. New technologies are<br>
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>>> Page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RunTime">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RunTime</a><br>
>>> says that WinRT is a COM-based API and uses a .NET-like metadata format.<br>
>>> So it is not native code after all then. I don't know why they advertised<br>
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>> it as native. I guess it is faster than .NET code because it is not<br>
>> managed. I thought that .NET allows non-managed code, too.<br>
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>> Why does "COM-based + .NET-like metadata" imply that it's not native code?<br>
>> The core libraries are written in either C or C++ and the metadata is<br>
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> Well, now we know what you will do during your holidays ;-)</p>
<p>Ehm... no, not really. I see no reason in working on something that I don't plan to use. ;)</p>
<p>> I can't believe they invented yet another technology/API. Their partners must go crazy :/</p>
<p>They have seen that their pure managed approach on Windows Phone 7 wasn't as successful as thought and now they try to attract native, managed and "web" (JavaScript) developers...</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Sven<br>
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