>>Then I'll speculate is had nothing to do with WindowsPhone sales and everything to do with him wanting to change gears.
What about Mike's point that WP is dead in the water? Mobile absolutely, definitely is the direction the smart money is going- so changing gears to talk about DirectX that only is relevant to 5% of the mobile market usually would be accompanied by a reassuring explanation. Not given = deafening silence?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1