Based on comments from my previous Windows 8 Development Platform blog post (thank you to Shawn and Slavo in particular), here’s an updated Magenic diagram. This one adds the Chakra js engine to the WinRT and desktop sides of the diagram, and it expands the detail of WinRT and Win32 to include things like COM, GDI+, and DirectX. The result is that DirectX and GDI+ are duplicated – they are shown a