Someone needs to tell them that having all these variations of technologies does not work very well for us developers. I mean why use C++ when we have invested all this work on .NET/WPF/Silverlight/etc?
Couldn't they get it to work fast enough or write a more efficient garbage collector? The W7 phones did not show performance problems... It all sounds very weird and I don't think retooling is very appealing to most developers.
I would consider retooling if their devices were runaway hits, but let's be honest, with RIM, Androids, iOs, et al using a much more consistent model and actually being so far in the horizon in terms of sales, I doubt I will go back to the horrible language that is C++ (just ask Linus, Ken, James, Anders, etc.) just to program a couple of unproven M$ platforms.
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