You're making plenty of assumptions about me. I started in the Microsoft world. I was a frequent attendee and speaker at local MS user groups and conferences, a

You're making plenty of assumptions about me. I started in the Microsoft world. I was a frequent attendee and speaker at local MS user groups and conferences, a volunteer at TechEd, and I sat on the review board for the C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, and Azure certification exams. I have the same background as you and I still think you're wrong here.