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Why doesn’t Microsoft release UX frameworks to build UI’s like their current UIs?

When I started learning programming with the .NET framework, I started by using WinForms as a UI technology. It uses “classic” menus just like this office 2000:

A few years later Office 2007 was released, the ribbon was born:

And even some years later Office 2010 was released, which also added new features like the stage:
A few days ago Office 15 preview was released and they added more fancy new stuff:

That’s huge progress IMO, but why don’t they enable the developers to build UI’s like them? When I have a look at .NET, there’s still no way to build a ribbon. Even with WPF, which is highly extensible, there are no premade controls. So the community has started several projects to create all those “features”. I know, today Microsoft has released a ribbon for WinForms and WPF, but that’s still not part of any core framework (not even the 4.5 one). But this is not limited to .NET as far as I know? Today there are still no APIs for unmanaged applications to create those ribbon UI’s?!

Why isn’t there a private deployment option for the .NET framework? [closed]

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