I had heard about automatic type deduction in C++ even before it was implemented in C#. The problem is that takes several years to get a C++ standard approved, while the C# team can just dream a feature and start implementing it in the next day.
Writing C++ I've found myself all the time implementing C# classes.
When doing Win32 development C++ looks like a waste of time. If I want something to run on Windows only I can produce the same result with both languages. If I want to create a multi platform application I'll use Java or Pyhton.
C++ isn't going to die, you've got too much code out there, but its place starts to fade away
I'd disagree with "the next day" part. C#3 (with automatic type deduction and lambdas) had a beta period of about a year, to make sure that all the new features played nicely with each other.
