.NET FW is 1st class at tehnical level, but Microsoft platform around it is no good for a startup. You want to write mobile apps - Windows Mobile/Phone is a jok

.NET FW is 1st class at tehnical level, but Microsoft platform around it is no good for a startup. You want to write mobile apps - Windows Mobile/Phone is a joke. Want cloud computing - Windows Azure is $100 per month for the simplest web site, no matter how many requests served. There is no also no way to play with the real thing for free. Another problem is most MS internal developers still live in the 80s. You can hear "Real man write C++" all the time. Just browse the source code, written by MS employes, on Codeplex. They write C++ in C#. The APIs are out of this world - 25 or 50 lines of code to use a simple feature is no problem.