Nope.

>Did he say that's why he change the column?
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>>Windows Phone is dead in the water. Microsoft put its full muscle behind it and it went nowhere. I considered it a telling sign when Charles Petzold (he whose Windows C book taught many developers how to write Windows code and who was memorably referred to as the Peltoldzoic Era) abandoned his Windows Phone series in MSDN Magazine to turn his attention to DirectX. Maybe he had just said all he had to say about Windows Phone and maybe he turned his eyes to more timely topics.