I don't think we can comment on what Longhorn will or will not do until the beta comes out later this year. Richard is just one person expressing his opinion. He hasn't made any money from .NET. If he had, I think he would be signing a different tune.

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>Thanks for the link Craig. I found interesting that most of the replies or counter-articles deal with what Grimes said about VB and VB.NET, I would've think that what He said about the future of .NET is far more important, things like:
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>"So, with the announcements they have made last year, Microsoft has indicated that Longhorn will not be the great .NET innovation that we were lead to believe it was from PDC 2003. This indicates to me that Microsoft is losing confidence in .NET."