Mind you, I think it's a good thing that MS is working on this. Even so, I find some irony in this Cook Computing post. Many years ago, when Smalltalk started out at PARC, it was not only the development/deployment platform - it was the OS. Likewise, the old Lisp machines were the same thing, but running Lisp instead of Smalltalk. It's mildly amusing to see the industry slowly finding it's way back to ideas pioneered decades ago. Had the supposedly smart guys not been so enamored of curly braces and semi-colons, we could have been there a long, long time ago...

Update: Fixed the link