Nice to know M$ approves of Perl.
Not like those of us who use Perl are going to stop just because M$ decides they don't approve.
But the end does give me a good idea on their real opinion, "go ahead and use Perl, if you must, but our products are so much better because we support them."
Personally, I'd tell someone to use Perl over VB and VB script any day. M$ may support VB, but the entire programming community supports Perl. My money is with the rest of the programmers.