> Let’s list the litany of technologies released and then abandoned by you in the past 15 years: ADO, Silverlight, DNA, BizApp, .NET, J#, XNA. .NET & XNA are

> Let’s list the litany of technologies released and then abandoned by you in the past 15 years: ADO, Silverlight, DNA, BizApp, .NET, J#, XNA. .NET & XNA are abandoned? > With Windows 8, we’re now going to write everything in HTML5 and Javascript? No. > I’ll give you props for making a gutsy move here. Acquiring a dying company, killing their development platform and shoving yours down their throat takes a whole lot of chutzpah. I have no idea what company he is talking about here >Picking up a company that doesn’t even use your core technologies ought to be a clear signal you’re not making the right move here. There are many coherent arguments for why buying Skype might have been a bad reason. This is not one of them. There were maybe 2 valid points in the whole article (Linux Server marketshare, Mac OS virtualization just works), but the rest of it is just a rant.