I can understand the Silverlight debacle; they tried to replace Flash and didn't notice that plugin-based RIAs were going to disappear altogether as a category in a few more years. It was a mistake, but this sort of stuff happens.
But whoever came up with WinRT needs to be fired.
Personally, I'm sticking to WPF for native development, and screw "Modern" apps. I'm NOT climbing another learning curve for something that may or may not still be alive in three years time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
