X# Is Alive and Kicking

Mary Jo Foley confirmed what I (and others) suspected last week:

A few programming-language-savvy readers sent us mail on our story from last week about Microsoft's newest programming language, code-named Xen. They claimed that Xen and X# were one and the same. And turns out, as Microsoft has confirmed, they are correct. Contrary to some rumors, X# is not dead; it has simply been re-named Xen.