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Articles I've read says the Win and App divisions are still in love with COM and when Sinofsky got his way, we got 'Windows Store Apps' where everything ran under COM instead of everything running under .NET.

Enter Win8 debacle and Sinofsky wisely decided he'd do other things.

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WinRT is the name of the thing, and while it's derived from COM (you still have IUnknown, for example), it fixes a lot of the latter's problems and fills missing gaps. For example, it has class inheritance (implemented as composition), a much simpler event pattern, drastically simplifies the whole apartment mess etc.

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