You never have to worry about drive-by installers with .NET updates - security updates just come down with Windows Updates. .NET is seeing a small renaissance

You never have to worry about drive-by installers with .NET updates - security updates just come down with Windows Updates. .NET is seeing a small renaissance with ASP.NET MVC and what the Server teams are putting out, but Java is also gaining popularity again as a way of running Rails apps quickly and with Scala. Both platforms have enough legacy apps out there for a lifetime of maintenance work, if that's your sort of thing. Cleaning up after outsourcing companies is lucrative.