Sebastian, What Scott G bloggs is what he has to say everything ells should be official missconduct.

Regarding content localizaion you are right it has been announced for several years but not yet implemented.

Despite the objective reasoning laid out in ScottGu's blog on WebForms vs. MVC... it is very clear that MS is putting a lot of energy (read $) behind MVC.  There's lots of reasons for this, none of which add much to the conversation... it's just a fact.  And as Umbraco is converting to MVC, this really is no mystery at all.  It's worth remembering that the Codeplex Foundation went with DotNetNuke.  It's not like this has not happened before, it's just never been so close to home.  Microsoft has been pushing a lot of LAMP technology (trying to sell Windows Server to the LAMP camp) for quite a while.

As for our own features and functions... the pace of DotNetNuke development picked up a lot in 2009 and will increase drastically this year.

Scott Willhite, Co-Founder DNN

Of course it did.  Just as other relationships have factored into the current ASP.Net choice.  Just as they factored into ASP.Net's choice to use Community Server originally.  You'll recall that telligent's owner, Rob Howard, worked for ScottGu and somehoe managed to retain the IP for the asp.net forums which originated with WebForums.net, written by Scott Mitchell of 4GuysFromRolla.  Nobody really knows how that all went down, but it's not really relevant.

None of these decisions happen in a vacuum.  And it's totally fine to beat our drums about what we think is good / bad, hot / not... but we need to remember to beat them on both sides.  Because in the end, as Scott so elequently put it...

"The interesting question to debate is not whether abstractions are good or not – but rather which abstractions feels most natural to you, and which map best to the requirements/scenarios/developers of your project."

Scott Willhite, Co-Founder DNN