[sirwhinesalot]

Nobody in their right mind should be touching any Microsoft provided API that isn't already well established (like Win32 and Direct3D).

I'm happy they're at least maintaining (to a limited extent) Windows Forms and WPF and updating their styles to fit with their fancy Fluent design.

But even that is a pretty sad state of affairs, since Windows Forms should be able to get that info from uxtheme (which Microsoft fumbled) and WPF should be able to get that info from the style distributed with the system-installed .NET framework (which Microsoft fumbled and now only exists for backcompat).

For the company with the best track record for backwards compatibility (with Windows), they sure suck at developing and evolving the same API for long.