An area that Micro$oft seems to ignoring is their device as in Barcode scanners that are still stuck on .Net 3.5 and VS 2008. Its matter of time before Andriod steals this and drives more developers to Java/Google.
Yeah, if only I could use lamdas in my barcode scanner... Perhaps what you're ignoring is that MS doesn't see much growth for themselves in the embedded market and, therefore, doesn't see a reason to invest there.
