[davydm]

yeah, i saw that inference too; but i think it's a silly one - it would be like those same people being upset that new windows core features aren't written in C# (and, we shouldn't forget the other targeting languages)

but i'm also a fan of languages, so my opinion may be screwy ;p

[mike_hearn]

The fact that the Windows team rejected C# actually was a reason to think twice about it (and Office, and ...) . If nothing else it had deep implications for .NET's backwards compatibility story, and it sent the message that people with existing C++ codebases shouldn't view it as a natural next step despite the .NET team originally pushing dialects of C++ and P/Invoke pretty hard.