>Nice try to diver attention from M$ but it doesn't change facts a bit.

Agreed. MS has absolutely no long term cohesive plan. They continue to thrash about.

Buy VFP. Kill it. Still can't touch productivity in .NET that was had in VFP for small desktop data apps.

Use WinForms. No! use WPF. No! Use SilverLight for everything. Nevermind, Silverlight is only for phone dev.... or maybe it isn't, don't ask us.

Want some XAML for vectory goodness? Nevermind, everything is going to be HTML5 and javascript.

Hell you don't even need to be a programmer to program. Have some Access. Better yet, have some LightSwitch. It's like Access only MVVM'ier. Mmmmmmmm, tasty!

Use drop down menus. Hey, these drop down menus seem to be working pretty well. 20 years later: Fire Zee Missiles! Drop down menus killed for Ribbons UI. Guess what MS? Ribbons suck and now they're creeping into Windows 8 File Explorer! http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/cut-the-ribbon-why-microsoft-needs-a-fresh-start-with-windows-8/

Use SOAP/ADO/ODBC/OLEDB/XML, shit we don't know! Hey, hope you didn't embrace OLEDB even though we told you to because now we're killing OLEDB.

Does anybody at Microsoft know how to effing lead and present a cohesive long term strategy?!?!?!?!?!?

MS isn't embracing emerging technology... it has no idea what the hell it's doing.

Using MS technology is like swimming with a school of piranhas. MS business units will just as soon eat each other as they will you (the developers).