I recently had to develop a little reporting system for my company's sales team and I have to say, Excel has some excellent interfaces on Windows. The little ap

I recently had to develop a little reporting system for my company's sales team and I have to say, Excel has some excellent interfaces on Windows. The little app I built is a GUI that lets someone choose a spreadsheet tied to a remote MySQL database via ODBC, refresh the data in that spreadsheet and email it at scheduled intervals. It literally took like a few days. Also, coming from a Java background but doing all my recent work in Ruby (about which I feel ambivalent), coding in C# was a real pleasure. I'm more of a text-editor type, but I was also profoundly impressed with VisualStudio. Microsoft ain't all bad.