The benefits are beginning to mount up. Developers can now develop apps in a variety of programing languages, bringing a larger and more robust development community to the ecosystem. Developers can now development their Modern UI apps using HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), and JavaScript. If you have developed .NET, Windows Presentation Foundation, or Microsoft Silverlight applications, you can develop a Metro style app using XAML, with code-behind in C++, C#, or Visual Basic. They can also develop a Modern UI style DirectX app using native C++ and HLSL to take full advantage of graphics hardware. The opportunities are mounting and this is looking better and better for business at large. Read the full story here.