Funny how I was thinking about .NET in today's world. It seems like the trend is in creating native apps that work with the internet (the cloud or whatever you

Funny how I was thinking about .NET in today's world. It seems like the trend is in creating native apps that work with the internet (the cloud or whatever you want to call it) but it still makes sense to invest in some web app, even if just for quick reference when a native app is not available on your machine (because you don't have your iPhone with you or any other reason, I can think of dozens). With this perspective in mind, one could hope for the easiest way to develop for both platforms (native & web) and, guess what?, .NET does both and it's really easy to use (I'd say it's the easiest thing to work with even if it can be more painful to do something truly unique). It's too bad it focused so heavily on the enterprise market, there could be a horde of startups using .NET nowadays if it wasn't so expensive to get a Windows Server running back in the old days (and besides BizSpark it still isn't as cheap as the *nix alternatives). Disclaimer: for personal stuff I never use .NET but it's what pays the bills for quite some time now. And I like it.