I get the feeling that they are no so much pulling C++ back as rather more prominently showing us where it has always been. There has always an underlying C/C++

I get the feeling that they are no so much pulling C++ back as rather more prominently showing us where it has always been. There has always an underlying C/C++ based Win32 and kernel library for example, but the .NET BCL hid much of that. Now in Win8, C++ is a first class citizen for designing Windows UIs again, along with C#.