I am no fan of his, but I don't think that his statement is too off-base if you look at it from Microsoft's perspective. They see a non-.NET platform trying to

I am no fan of his, but I don't think that his statement is too off-base if you look at it from Microsoft's perspective. They see a non-.NET platform trying to poach users from them. However, I'm not sure at all that that's the right view, and in fact I suspect you have it pretty much nailed.