It didn't shed any light on the reasons.

>I can only guess at the purpose for this shift, but the article just stated that Microsoft will drop VJ++ from VS, and they hinted the possible reason is the pending lawsuit. You can probably find this article via Craig's link, if you are interested.
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>>>That is what I heard too - because of the lawsuit with Sun, they have decided to put VJ++ on the back burner, and push C#. I read this in a related article on cnet.
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>>I don't completely understand this. Is Microsoft afraid that Sun will yank its Java license and doesn't want to invest in a product it might lose?