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UWP and "Metro" are the same thing, this is also basically the same thing just decoupled from the OS and with the Windows.* namespaces swapped out for Microsoft.* namespaces. So they've stuck to one reasonably coherent approach for the last eight years or so at least.

Yes, you're forgetting Win32, which of course was an extension of the original Windows 16-bit API which I'm not sure had its own name.

If you sift through enough settings panels and preferences dialogs, you should see everything going back to DOS widgets in there.

Wbat is a DOS widget? The earliest stuff is from Windows 3.1.

Turbo vision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision

And where you can see it in Windows 10? Honest question.

I am a long time desktop dev but my next project will either go web or qt. I am done with MS desktop toolkits.

I've been doing .NET for about 10 years and tbh outside of .NET core itself for building web applications and services (not just windows services) I am not massively interested.

MFC and WTL. The latter still exists in a way, but its license may not be to your liking.

I was being rhetorical.