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		jimbobimbo on June 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fr... Windows had never made it into "essentially .NET". Longhorn was going to be the first one, but it was scraped and Vista is essentially Win32/Win64 APIs with pre-installed .NET framework. I doubt there's anything in Windows client that is written in .NET - server is a different story though.

brudgers on June 3, 2011 | [–]

I did not say that Windows was written in .NET. The parent comment was "essentially .NET for many purposes." Among those purposes would be development of applications and system automation.

kenjackson on June 3, 2011 | [–]

Windows Media Center is written in .NET.

jimbobimbo on June 3, 2011 | [–]

Which, BTW, uses its own proprietary UI framework, not even XAML.

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