Are you kidding me. The article assumes that if MS makes a product as good as iphone or android they will win. The reaility is that Android is FREE for smartphone manufacturers and Apple doesnt make money off the iPhone OS but the hardware. So MS has the arrogance to think that it can still license windows mobile when HP has webOS, Apple makes their own phone, and everyone else can get a superior mobile OS for free. Won't work now like the PC because everyone has to start over and write their applications from scratch anyways with windows mobile 7. And doesnt even do native code. MS YOU LOSE!!!!

I signed up to slashdot today just to post this comment because as a long time window and mac developer I'm infuriated by these non sense posts and hypothetical scenerios. Its not true because 1. VS2010 is already released. It was in beta for many many months. 2. Do you have any freaking idea of the work it would take to get objective-c and cocoa working in vs. 3. MS is pushing managed languages. 4. how would you test an app..I'm sure MS wants to encourage developers to buy Macs and iphones 5. why would MS spend all that effort trying to kick windows and windows mobile 7 in the nuts. Wasn't vista and windows mobile bad enough. 6. Have you not been paying attention to what steve says. No means no. he hates cross platform compilers. So if your dreaming of ways this could be true that also means no silverlight. But maybe I'm wrong and ballmer really wants to see if Bill has the guts to fire him. I should start a blog and say Santa and the easter bunny will be at WWDC.