I think Microsoft has always done a great job on providing excellent development tools and I've always used Microsoft tools and languages with great pleasure in

I think Microsoft has always done a great job on providing excellent development tools and I've always used Microsoft tools and languages with great pleasure in the past. However, to me, developing with Microsoft tools is really limiting my choices. This is one of the reasons I really like the Java platform, because of the choices. I can choose to run Java on Windows, Linux, OSX or what ever operating system. I can choose if I want to use Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, Geronimo or what ever server best suites my needs. I can choose my language; Java, Jython, JRuby, Groovy, Scala, Clojure etc. All these languages run on the JVM. If I was still building desktop apps, like I did in the 90's, I'd probably still be using Microsoft tools. But since I'm primarily a web developer these days, somehow to me, Microsoft tools just don't cut it for me.