This Microsoft "Robotics Studio" looks pretty cool, if you look at their list of partners
here
you can see that there are some groups using it that already have ties to FIRST (LEGO NXT, Segway inc.) and other big names in robotics. But whatever FIRST decides I'm sure will be for the best and will probably be for reasons beyond what anyone here has thought of, so speculation is more or less pointless.
I just think this Microsoft software looks neat-o to play with
