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Dude. Do you think technology should stand still for the sake of backwards compatibility?

Yes. What we're talking about here is huge amounts of infrastructure in businesses everywhere that cannot be rewritten overnight. Microsoft still seems to think IT and software development is some sort of massive growth industry with lifetimes of a few years, or even a few months.

I hate to break this to you, but software development is becoming like other industries out of necessity - much slower and more realistic.

You can still call COM from .net anyway so I don't know why you're whining.

You really don't know what you're talking about. There is some fairly primitive COM support, but none of it is intuitive, reliable or even well supported by Microsoft. To confuse things further, you've still got COM+ kicking around on the server-side and none-existant VB 6 migration support. The platform and it's other components, like Indigo, change faster than I change my socks.

.net is so much more productive than old style COM develeopment

Blah, blah, blah, yada, yada. Get yourself a proper job as opposed to regurgitating that MCSE you've managed to get yourself on, OK? If you've ever seen comments from a Microsoft MVP or professional who actually has to maintain systems in the real world (as opposed to his head stuck up Microsoft's marketing department's backside) you'd know what I'm talking about. But, like most people who read OSNews, you don't.

And if you're at a company that just does legacy crap, maybe it's time for a new job?

Legacy crap keeps business going, keeps the money coming in and keeps the world going round. If you don't pay attention to legacy systems, if and when you do get a job in professional software development, you'll be out of it pretty quickly.

Do try and think before making ludicrously stupid and irresponsible comments, will you? But, afterall, this is OSNews readers we're talking about here.