Future of desktop applications on Windows 8

Posted by Vibhore Tanwer on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Vibhore Tanwer
Published on 2012-12-06T11:01:10Z Indexed on 2012/12/06 11:22 UTC
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There are a lot of threads discussing existence of WPF/Silverlight/HTML5 on Windows 8, I just need to clarify the picture about desktop applications only, I have following queries to the experts

What are the technologies available for developing desktop applications on Windows 8?
What are the technologies I can use for creating rich multimedia applications. Currently I have an application with DirectX 9 and WPF. If I am to develop something like that for Windows 8 then what options are available to me, and what are the pros and cons of these.
Is it a good idea to continue with the same DirectX 9 code on Windows 8 as well? What is the best option equivalent to DirectX, Is it XNA or is it DirectX 11 or something else?

Performance an extensibility are critical points to me. All suggestions are welcome.

Thanks in Advance.

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