Overall, I ilke where MS is going with .NET 3.0, but there's still a lot of overlap in the current offerings. These range from multiple ORM tools (Linq and Entity Spaces) down to the dramatic differences a developer experiences when switching between C# and VB.NET. Why can't, for example, the only difference between C# and VB.NET be purely syntatical?

How can we be sure we're selecting the right overlapping technologies? Does MS strive to eliminate these conflicts? How/why are the conflicts ever created in the first place?

Another example: Does every MS product use WCF for communication? Obviously, they don't, but why not? And will they ever?

(Hi Joe, I'll get back to work now)