It was VB, Access and Sharepoint heavy marketed by MS evangelist drones as primary LOB tools just before Windows.NET The next .CLOUD or .AI frameworks is probably on its way in minds of board of directors. Microsoft is great in producing APIs and frameworks thats not last. And drones will happy to explain how powerful and simple things now.

I hope it lasts that long.

I picked up and used XNA for the global gamejam 2012. It wasn't a terrible experience, so I went to use it again for 2013 but they'd since killed it off.