Programming skills

Development tools

Languages, frameworks

Components

Runtimes

Windows 8

The Windows Runtime (WinRT) is the shared runtime and API space used by store apps across the Windows platform (phone and client)

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Dramatic convergence in 8.1• Goal is 100% convergence for dev scenarios

• In 8.0, we had ~30% API convergence

• With 8.1, we move well past 90%+ convergence

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Legend

• One Visual Studio ‘Universal app’ project template for your app

• Shared dev and test tooling for both platforms