Microsoft deprecated RPC (DCE) in Windows 8 and is switching to WS-MAN (WinRM) for remote management and control. For example the new Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 is all WinRM.
See http://redmondmag.com/blogs/it-decision-maker/2012/05/ws-man-in-remoting.aspx
Microsoft Newspeak.
The Service Interface of WCF is an implementation of RPC.
Quack, Waddle, Duck.
And I’ve seen nothing from MonkeySoft to indicate the clipboard isn’t still DDE, aka Windoze 2.0 RPC, either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Data_Exchange
Hopefully they'll have better luck getting away from that than they did with WINS.