One of the stranger decisions that Microsoft made when developing Windows 8 was that the new model of building apps was to be based not on .NET, but rather on a new development technology called Windows Runtime (WinRT).
The real reason why this decision was made has never been officially confirmed. A theory held by common folk is that Steven Sinofsky had an axe to grind against .NET having blamed it for "that whole Vista thing".Personally, that's a theory I subscribe to.
.NET is a wonderful set of technologies and one of the best things Microsoft has ever come up with. Why they would ditch a decade's worth of refinement and replace it with something new is baffling at best.
Anyway, the very much perceived advantage that WinRT gives the world over .NET is that it make it possible to build native Windows Store apps in HTML and JavaScript, rather than insisting that developers know .NET.
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