Bob,

>Is MS Finally moving to a standard windows builder for all dev environments in Studio?

Standard, yes. All environments, doesn't look like it.

>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/technology/winforms.asp
>Once again, they say 'all languages' then say 'such as VB and C#'.

What they really say is: "using any of the languages supporting the .NET platform, including Microsoft Visual Basic® and C#."