I have two theories on this. First, it has to be a hard team to attract talent to. Good programmers are passionate programmers, and its hard to be passionate ab

I have two theories on this. First, it has to be a hard team to attract talent to. Good programmers are passionate programmers, and its hard to be passionate about something constantly being ridiculed. Second reason is that I still think parts of MS see the web as a threat. Until they have a stronghold on a 2nd platform (mobile/tablets, gaming, web (SL), servers or enterprise), they aren't likely to do anything which could undermine their only platform.