Just to clarify, the article actually says...
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Once Windows Blue is released, the Windows SDK will be updated to support the new release and Microsoft will stop accepting apps that are built specifically for Windows 8, pushing developers to create apps for Blue.
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Also, it doesn't say that new apps won't be able to run on Windows 8 machines, it only says that apps designed specifically for Windows 8 won't be accepted.
I have no issues with this. Apple has had no problems killing backwards compatibility at certain points in their development cycles. At some point you really just need to be able to start fresh and tell people to suck it up.