The weird thing about MS is .NET in general - it seems like since the inception of the technology they intended to bet the farm on it as the desktop development

The weird thing about MS is .NET in general - it seems like since the inception of the technology they intended to bet the farm on it as the desktop development platform of choice, yet the only first-part MS app that uses it Visual Studio (and assorted tools like Expression Blend). Which is super weird, since it was conceived as a Borland Delphi competitor (they even hired the guy who created Delphi, Anders Hjelsberg, to design C#), and there used to be tons of Delphi apps. It never made it into their core offerings.