If .NET has a place in first-class Windows 8 development, why is Microsoft remaining silent about it? Journalists who follow Microsoft, like Mary Jo Foley, have

If .NET has a place in first-class Windows 8 development, why is Microsoft remaining silent about it? Journalists who follow Microsoft, like Mary Jo Foley, have covered the internal strife over .NET. Reportedly, the Windows division just doesn't believe in it for desktop development. The idea that .NET is going to be replaced by HTML5 and JavaScript is absolutely ridiculous. VB6 developers probably wouldn't have believed that Microsoft would kill it off either, but they did.