With the official announcement: “XNA Game Studio will not support Metro style apps” XNA has been marked as a legacy platform.

Please provide us with a replacement that:
-Fully satisfies .NET library design guidelines.
-Allows direct access to the VGA.
-Implements most strong points of XNA and learns from its mistakes.
-Has a feature set that is ON PAIR with DirectX 11.1 and stays UP TO DATE with future DirectX releases, at least ones that are accessible on WinRT.
-Enables developers to make applications capable of running on WinRT, Classic Desktop (at least on Windows 8), and at least on the next generation of the Xbox series.
-Has its own managed documentation, managed samples and managed tutorials (one of the biggest drawback of community-made DirectX wrappers is the lack of documentation).

Thank you.
Also, please announce the official plans for it as soon as possible, heavy damage is being done to the world of managed development by every moment until that happens.

The phone-development tools were great, no question about it. But they seem always as a plugin, that doesn't really belong to VS. For testing on phone, you have to dig out the deployment tool out of the deepth of your file system... why is there no special VS-Environment, when working on a XNA-Project? Making the UI dark (look at premiere), so you can see immediately, which type of project you're working on. This coloring of the UI, depending on the project-type would be great... or it is possible right now and I'm too dumb, to find it out.

Shot: Better XNA-Integration, best solution would be a customized UI for such projects.

Perhaps Micrsoft can repeat history by creating another ecosystem stategy with the Xbox. Microsoft could allow hardware vendors to manufacture Xboxes and allow software developers to develop software Apps for the Xbox in addition to games. Many huge firms created by becoming PC builders and software firms. Perhaps, they could repeat this by working with cable TV vendors, wireless, dish providers to allow people to buy their own Xbox cable boxes instead of renting an old slow cable box that can't do anything well. Allow the cable companies to buy and rent out the Xbox cable boxes, but also allow them to sell Xbox Cable boxes to people. This would allow people to buy the lastest and greatest Xbox, instead of being stuck with an old slow ****** cable box. Hopefully, this will allow the Entertainment Cable industry to innovate much faster and utilize the dark fiber. In fact, you probably should allow TV and BlueRay vendors to put the Xbox OS into TVs and BlueRay players.
The Xbox could become an awesome Home Entertainment Hub. Furthermore, it would be great if people could develop .Net applications for their Xbox, just like they could develop apps for Win Phone and their PC. And even better, people should be able to develop Xbox Apps for sale in the App Store.