Now yes, .Net is gaining popularity a on the asp.net and web api side since they open sourced it so you aren't tied to MS and still have Mono and Linux support

Now yes, .Net is gaining popularity a on the asp.net and web api side since they open sourced it so you aren't tied to MS and still have Mono and Linux support but Windows is dead AFAIC. I've moved to F# and may well move to Reason from there as I switch my skills to Linux. I totally agree the mishandling on the Windows 8 announcement is what killed windows just as it was getting good. The freedom to style WPF apps would have made Windows keep it's place as the OS that you could make your own but Windows 10 is trying to be Apple, constraining what you can and can't do and forcing you through an App Store.