Right, this is exactly what I was talking about. Others in this thread have pointed out that MS has other technologies that are very well supported for long pe

Right, this is exactly what I was talking about. Others in this thread have pointed out that MS has other technologies that are very well supported for long periods of time -- the core C# stuff, and in their OS releases they are fanatic about never forcing you to rewrite your app, sometimes going to great lengths to be bug-for-bug-compatible.