Looks like this is the new language for Windows 9, all other languages are deprecated, from C# to VB.NET, and the only way to use all of the Windows 9 features is to program in Speedy.
Really though, given that WinDiv won the last round with WinRT (hello again COM, we didn't miss you!) the pendulum will have swing back to DevDiv eventually. And since C# has surely lost its sheen by now we may very well see another language that tries to make the CLR sexy again.
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Anonymous2014-08-09 3:46
I didn't believe it. Microsoft is to enterprisey. They benefit greatly from having dozens of obsolete, incompatible shit being used. A business running VB6 is unlikely to switch to, say, LISP, but maybe to VB.NET. If they had a single language that everything was done it, it would be too easy for a competitor to make a similar product (see Oracle forms for a blatant ripoff of VB) and steal those sweet contracts.
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Anonymous2014-08-09 4:11
>>5 Microsoft Visual LISP .NET 2015 Team Enterprise Solutions Architect Edition