Unless you hid yourself under a rock, you know Microsoft has been shipping a dual frankenstein monster known as Windows 8.x, and because the metro environment failed so far (too much limited, incompatible with windows phone, ...), Microsoft is entering a new strategy where desktop, after all, is not dead and at least may live through for a couple more years. Of course, what they are doing here is try to communicate with corporate people out there, which they so profundly screwed so far (arbitrary XP OS expiring and so on).

Well anyone has to know that desktop is in fact screwed as well because of all the new high resolution screens coming out in the market only to compete. Turns out that high resolution is incompatible with Microsoft's entire UI stack. Contrary to say Apple, rendering was never designed to be scalable. So you end up, regardless the framework you are using, with just a mess of scaled text, but not scaled buttons, and so on.

No wonder Google desktop apps, most successful of which is their web browser Chrome, is taking the high road, and now using only a big drawing surface from the Windows UI SDK. Once they get the handle to the big drawing surface, Google can draw whatever text and controls they wish (hint : including navigation scrollbars), really scale at will, have the actual hand on it.

It's really a sad situation that any Windows developer out there right now must use the Windows UI SDK with a condom, otherwise face the very high risk of breaking their own apps, or at least have their own apps look and work miserably on customers' computers.

Microsoft says Metro is the way to go for this. But metro is way too much limited, incompatible. And the only fact that Microsoft should have a say on whether your application deserves the right to be on the Windows store, the exclusive way t get your app in the hands of customers, pretty much sums it all.

What we have here is really the foundations falling off. If you are in it for making a living, it is time to consider a change.