> Am I the only one who thinks it is sad ... I think it's fantastic. > And we need more native apps, not less. Do you mean "managed apps"? In that case, you

> Am I the only one who thinks it is sad ... I think it's fantastic. > And we need more native apps, not less. Do you mean "managed apps"? In that case, you're either talking about special case apps that require low level access or low level management (ex: for performance reasons), drivers, special libraries, or might just be holding on to the past. .NET, C#, and XAML are the highest legitimate programming abstraction layer in Windows and are the way most Windows apps are made these days. The unerlining management system (and OS) is written in C/C++ and exposes the win32 API. That's always there. Rarely does anyone make C or unmanaged C++ apps calling the win32 api when you can have .NET Framework and CLR do that for you.