Things went pretty silent there.
https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt745094.aspx
"Teams within Microsoft are already starting to use C++/WinRT to build WinRT components for the OS itself."
My point was more about Blend, XAML tooling support and official integration into Visual Studio.
So, all the things that C++/CX has today, but C++/WinRT was still catching up when that information was made public.
Things went pretty silent there.