Unfortunately when he said "30 years of carefully-optimised Windows C/C++ code" what he did not know at the time was that the phrase leaked through a wormhole into an alternate dimension and was then overheard just as the commanders of two massive battle fleets were making a last minute effort at diplomacy to forestall what would otherwise surely be an imminent major galactic war. More unfortunately, the sound of describing the underpinnings of .NET as being "30 years of carefully-optimized Windows C/C++ code" is almost exactly not quite entirely unlike the sound produced in the Ferhfxian language of the insult, "Your mother is very nice. And tasty." and so, unfortunately, a great galactic war broke out, that lasted for thousands and thousands of years, until nothing but two dead lifeless planets were left, and it was all clearly the fault of Microsoft, once again.

(with apologies to Zandorg and Douglas Adams)