>>>because the .NET IDE is hands down the best development environment out there.
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>Doesn't seem to be holding back the Android and iPhone developers. ;-)
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>Already there are people who made millions developing something mobile that would have been ignored on the PC. For example, check out "Angry Birds" that has sold millions of copies and/or is available for free supported by advertising. In 2 years time it would have been submerged in similar offerings but for now it has made some Finnish people very rich. It's going to happen for business too- e.g. it seems that most US physicians are making the switch to smartphones so there's a short window for smart healthcare apps before the incumbents come up with their own versions or buy you out. Seems to me the best IDE is the one that gets your app in front of as many people as quickly as possible.

lol. True that if you are looking at the business side of things. If you are looking at the development side it is, naturally, still nice to have a great IDE to make short work of app creation. Healthcare apps -- yeah, the market leading Epocrates iPhone/iPad mobile medical apps are used by over 340,000 health care professionals in the U.S., and that number is growing fast, so the time for easy entry may have already passed.

Mobile is THE growth market for all things IT right now, so in a way Muglia's statement that SL is mainly targeted for W7P in the future kind of makes sense, too, because it means that you'll have a great IDE for that kind of development a well. Would be EVEN nicer if there were more definite synergies between desktop and mobile development, though (i.e. same IDE for both.) One can always dream, I guess. Esperanto, indeed!