Lack of developer interest is going to become a huge problem for them on down the road. I was recently at a meetup where all the folks who do Windows developme

Lack of developer interest is going to become a huge problem for them on down the road. I was recently at a meetup where all the folks who do Windows development professionally had Macs. That's going to become a serious problem for Microsoft. .NET is alien to Apple and Apple is alien to .NET. (I say this as someone who uses Monodevelop on his Mac daily.) I don't think developers will accept using a primary OS and a primary development stack that don't fit together very well for long. Eventually, they're either going to switch back to Windows, or stop developing for it. And I don't think it's going to be the former, because in a million tiny ways .NET developers (i.e., most of the people who develop for the platform nowadays) are also made to feel like second-class citizens on Windows. Kind of ironic for a company whose CEO is most famous for shouting "Developers! Developers!" while going into a fugue state, but there you are.