I've used .net nearly exclusively for the past 8 years in my career and still believe this is all some stunt to generate negative hype. If this so-called uproa

I've used .net nearly exclusively for the past 8 years in my career and still believe this is all some stunt to generate negative hype. If this so-called uproar is caused by developers who are not willing to upgrade their skills, they shouldn't be in this business. The same event occured with VB6, which was replaced by .net, which will be replaced by something better, and everyone started reading their books again. Even if MS ends support for .net tomorrow (which it won't, i.e. WinXP tenure) too many companies are locked into .net technology and they'll still have work to come for years while they finally evolve to a new technology. If you really dislike change and still want to call yourself a programmer, transition to embedded devices and stick to low level ASM or C which should be around for a while.