This at least explains what from the outside looks like total insanity. What's been confusing is they've been chasing all sorts of things (phones / tablets / w

This at least explains what from the outside looks like total insanity. What's been confusing is they've been chasing all sorts of things (phones / tablets / web development) so clearly had money to burn, but couldn't deliver a basic solution for their own platform. Clean simple line of business apps (ie, datagrid / listviews needs to work etc with bigger excel type datasets) + maybe RemoteApps or some other remoting option for SAAS type deployment would have been a nice option to have for plenty of folks. For a lot of use cases the modern solutions are both worse to develop for AND are slower / buggier - so you get little for the effort