Don't forget, WPF held up LongHorn and they had to reboot their development. By taking care of the windowing framework deep within Windows (presumably the under

Don't forget, WPF held up LongHorn and they had to reboot their development. By taking care of the windowing framework deep within Windows (presumably the underlying code is unmanaged) and removing the dependency on .NET, Windows division is ensuring that they will never suffer the humiliation of delays because of DevDiv.