It was a totally different world for development 15 years ago though. These days web applications are taking over what used to be in-house developed Windows ap

It was a totally different world for development 15 years ago though. These days web applications are taking over what used to be in-house developed Windows apps. Those in-house apps represent a huge amount of software development. I think that market mostly dried up for Microsoft. Linux and open source software rule the web app space. On mobile it is Android and iOS. C# is a nice language, better than Java for sure. Microsoft has a long way to go yet to win back developers (lots of dirty tricks in the 1990s) but at least they are heading the right direction now.