[pacaro]

Maybe, but my recollection from the time (as related to me by Bryan Willman) was that a group of base team architects did an analysis of the .Net runtime and created a list of technical concerns that they felt precluded it's use in any critical component of the OS.

Of course, all of these concerns could presumably have been addressed or mitigated, but by the time analysis was released it was too late

[pjmlp]

That is exactly my view, instead of addressing the issues, like Apple and Google have been doing the last decade, the decision was to double down on C++ and COM instead.

[pacaro]

Yes. And to a certain extent a **-swinging contest between DevDiv and the base team