You change your thinking about how MSFT works. It's not one big company. It operates as different companies. It's a school of piranahs, not a big shark. OfficeDiv and DevDiv, in this case, are competitors to each other.
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>Probably MS sees some kind of a bigger picture and simply herds large group of developers into Visual Studio/.NET with a little regard to those who fail to make the switch.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer