I think I mostly agree though I think "quick and dirty" has a negative connotation that is not necessarily justified. A lot of corporate environments has web a

I think I mostly agree though I think "quick and dirty" has a negative connotation that is not necessarily justified. A lot of corporate environments has web apps that are only used by 10 or 20 people and which are being transmitted over ultra fast gigabit connections. In those cases the so called "quick and dirty" app is very much a plus in that it cuts down on vital developer time and still allows a company to have a web based applications (with all the advantages therein) What had been missing until now, at least in an official capacity, was a way to make serious public facing web apps and I think Microsoft has made great strides with their support of Jquery and the ASP.NET MVC project. From that perspective I think Microsoft is in a really good place right now. Webforms continues to serve that corporate environment that other companies don’t seem to care about and ASP.NET MVC allows them to challenge Rails et al. in the web space.