Larry Osterman from MS made some quick but (to me) interesting remarks here (see comments as well as main post) about what is/isn't in WinRT and whether parts of WinRT can be called from Desktop apps:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2011/09/16/what-has-larry-been-doing-for-two-years-and-why-has-the-blog-been-dark-for-so-long.aspx
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