>>Nope. COM will still be there.
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>Not the way it's used today...
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>Native .Net objects (IL code) are not COM objects and access to 'classic' COM objects is through an interoperability layer.
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>This is Microsoft's way of phasing out 'legacy' COM apps <s>... Funny how quickly technology goes obsolete these days, huh?
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>Obsolete is of course exaggerated, but COM components will definitely be less important in the .Net future.

I'm still a bit confused about how COM+ will fit into all this. I hear what you're saying, but everything from MS shows COM+ as still being in the picture.