Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

At any rate, the bosses are worried about the future of C++ and Win32. They read somewhere that Microsoft's next OS won't be supporting anything but .NET Framework, so they are not convinced that C++ with Win32 should be the best option.

They read it all wrong and just spreading a misinformation. To clear up the doubts, I'd suggest you to watch this video and make up your opinion for yourself: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=281987 Not that I care about Visual Studio or C++ (I use Delphi/Win32 as my mainstream development IDE/language) but I wouldn't expect Win32 (and C++) to be deprecated any time soon. Ivo