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I first interacted with XNA a few years ago when it had support for both PC and Xbox developing.
Now i see that the directions of development are Xbox and Windows Phone. Is the PC part gone or is it automatically included into the Xbox development.
We want to develop a game for PC only. Do I have enough support for it or the newest version of XNA shut it down?
The Windows Phone stuff got split off from the Xbox 360 stuff, due to Windows 8 and particularly Windows Phone 8 coming. In the process, Microsoft made a real mess of the create.msdn.com website.
The PC stuff (and some of the WP7 stuff) for XNA is still in with the Xbox stuff.
The latest version of XNA is 4.0. It still “works”. I’m making a PC game using it. On the PC you can basically think of it as a really nice C# wrapper for DirectX 9 (plus a content pipeline). It works on the Desktop in Windows 8, but not in the new Metro-style UI.
Microsoft have been showing very, very little love for XNA since it started to show off Windows 8. They have said precisely nothing about the future of XNA. Maybe there will be a new version for the next Xbox. Or maybe 4.0 will be the last version. I don’t think anyone outside Microsoft knows.