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"HyperCard for Windows 8" rather: It's a Windows 8 application for making Windows 8 applications (which can use the network). Which makes this much less interesting to me.

An important point - you can't create ready-for-the-Windows Store apps using Siena. They're apparently meant for internal company applications.

I think you can export the project at the end so it can be massaged into a distributable app using VB/etc.

Ha, I read the page for a moments thinking "What is this?... a cooking app?". Definitely a gold star in the incomprehensible awards. Thanks for the link.

There is a list of sample apps available on the website which can give some other ideas how this might be useful: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dn494958

A reasonable summary of what they're trying to build here is "HyperCard for the internet", which is actually a pretty cool idea.

That sounds very much like what the VPRI people have been doing all along.