OT; Will MS kill .NET ?

["Luís]

BTW, I was disappointed to find out (and I had to dig through 
several contradictory articles to clarify that) that WinRT is not 
planned to (eventually) be the new core Windows API (the lowest 
level one, ignoring the NT "native" API) , upon which higher 
level APIs (like .Net) are built.

Things (like WinRT itself) are going to still be built upon 
Win32/64, with all the cruft, and WinRT is just a side 
alternative -- a facade to the old crufty API and all its 
compatibility issues, not something authoritative. For instance, 
windows paths will still have the old Win32 limits, even if the 
NT API (and WinRT) is less restrictive.