To this I say. It is your choice. You can stay at MS and continue developing desktop products. A 'Web Guy' has to deal with bad and ugly browser technologies, m

To this I say. It is your choice. You can stay at MS and continue developing desktop products. A 'Web Guy' has to deal with bad and ugly browser technologies, mixed language technologies, deal with scaling problems, worry about security etc. I could think of at least ten web based projects that are next to impossible to develop for the Web. How about http://www.wolframalpha.com/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/? He is confusing 'Web Development' with 'programming' a blog! The fact that anyone can program for the web is a bonus not a disantavantage. It forces the software monoliths to move! My kids all learned programming at high-school but that did not make them programmers. The field had always the CS Scientists, mixed up with the Cobol Programmers at Financial institutions the ADA Defense Contractors etc., now we have a different landscape but we can do without this type of bragging which is akin to ...mine is ..bigger than yours... and you are not a man because...