Borland / CodeGear Delphi / C++ Builder

It's sad really to finally see Borland closing a chapter on its very successful product - the VCL.
VCL has been the foundation of the .NET framework Windows Forms portion and in many ways still does a much better job - such as subclassing common controls, wrapping it into a 'drag-drop'-able control. Amazingly, Borland's core controls in the VCL has remained mainly unchanged since Version 5. With a few tweaks and additions to make it use Vista theme, it was made theme-aware in Vista.
What can we say about the .NET framework then? Well, as of Orcas (VS 2008 for the less informed), most controls are still not Vista themed - and most of the controls are around about VCL's version 3 standards in terms of features, bugs, and extensibility (ease of derivation, subclassing etc.).
Yeah yeah, there's WPF, but heck, some controls in WPF are even worse than their Windows Forms counterparts. And, using WPF simply means shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to finding the lowest common denominator - heck, I can't even run WPF apps at a decent speed on my 3 year-old laptop.
Microsoft's solutions - WPF or Windows Forms - are very half-hearted. They are neither very usable, or completely unusable. Most of the time, you'll have to invest a lot of your own time and resources into making something useful out of it.
Just for example, the TreeView control - both Borland (CodeGear) and Microsoft have it. Which is better? Borland (CodeGear) hands down (I expect Borland fan boys to cheer and Microsoft fan boys to boo now -- Darn those people - get a life!).
I worked with a guy with MCSE creditation last year (typical Microsoft fan-boy) and was told that anything I could do with Borland (CodeGear), I could do with Visual Studio / .NET framework. Sure. Try creating a multiselect TreeView that works in both Vista and XP, natively themed (i.e. Vista explorer mode theme and in XP, fall back to the active XP theme). In Borland (CodeGear), you'd simply drag-n-drop and set the multiselect property to true. Zero lines of code. I dare you - you know who you are, you Microsoft fan-boy - try doing that in Visual Studio and see how long it would take you to do something similar.
Yeah, sure, I did it eventually - check out my Advanced TreeView Control here - but it took me some time. And sure, the fan-boy could've simply said, well, I told ya, it could be done. And my reply would have been, "Yeah, it could've also been done in pure ASM!"
Good on ya Microsoft!