I decided to take a break from the .net community a while back, recently I decided to start going to meetings again and theres been a heavy mind shift that I've

I decided to take a break from the .net community a while back, recently I decided to start going to meetings again and theres been a heavy mind shift that I've seen. Lots of extremely defensive people, lots of people saying things similar to this guys article. If you go back to your date of 2008 MS devs where on top of the world, quite smug, standing on pedestals, lauding over other programmers... The whole Balmer "developer developers developers" summed up the buzz in the community. What I've seen just recently is the completely opposite, theres fear in the community, theres a lot of people who built there careers on the coat tails of MS... and MS seems to be failing them. Microsoft aren't helping the situation by being cagey about the future of there platform. Theres lots of talk of other platforms at the meetings, people asking equations like "What others languages have you used?" , "Can you use Objective-C?", and of cause discussions around those types of questions. Others usually very opinionated seem very quiet. Its not the saw community I've been mulling with for the last decade. MS is loosing the loyalty of its developers in my group, and if this is wide spread then I think you're going to see more and more articles like this, proclaiming more and more outrageous claims about why MS is the best. For me, I've halted my windows development and started porting my apps to Objective-C, Java, and python. I can't be bothered with uncertainty. OSX is stable for me, I like the interface (and it doesn't get in my way like Win7 and Win8 does), and although I really enjoy C# and visual studio I'm prepared to give other things ago.