What happens for native Win32 applications in Windows 8?

Now that Windows 8 developer information has been made available for instance on MSDN, the main developer question are of course what happens to existing applications and what are the new APIs to use.

Shortly put, native Win32 application support isn't going to vanish in Windows 8, but Win32 code or APIs cannot anymore be used to write new Metro style applications. For that, completely new APIs exists, and for native code developers this means WinRT, short for Windows Runtime.

For more information, see the MSDN developer topic "Roadmap for creating Metro style apps using C#, C++, or Visual Basic" available here.

PS. The keynote speach of Build can now be seen and downloaded from Channel 9.