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It looks like Microsoft is backing away from XNA (but not DirectX): (see http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-false-alarm-we-arent-backing-away-from-directx-7000010647/, note that there is no XNA Game Studio / XNA available for the new Visual Studio 2012, etc).
What technology can be used in it's place, for a 2D, managed game on Windows? I'd love to find something that works on Windows 7 and 8, with bonus points for WinXP and/or WinPhone.
I apologize for the overly broad question, but I've dug around in the MS website & can't seem to find any clear guidance. Silverlight looks promising, but I can't tell if that's going to be phased out too. It looks like Metro apps should prefer to use JavaScript, but I can't tell if you can use C#/.Net with that. WinForms would be great, but I think that's also "the past, not the future"
Any guidance would be most appreciated!
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By the time the next generation of consoles released, XNA had been abandoned, but Monogame came in to take its place, and it had support for PlayStation 4."
MonoGame currently supports Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS/iPadOS, Android, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.
MonoGame is a cross platform gaming framework based on Microsoft's XNA framework that's extremely easy to learn.
XNA is a now-discontinued game development toolset made by Microsoft. FNA is an open-source reimplementation of XNA created and maintained by Ethan Lee. So the downloads basically differ by a bunch of libraries. FNA might work slightly better.
Have you tried monogame MonoGame Its latest version also supports WP8
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