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You should check out the Windows Azure website, .NET is but one column among 5-6 open languages / platforms. Microsoft realizes that it needs to be where the developers are, which is a broader world than .NET.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/

I'm using node.js on Azure and it is impressively good product.

But I actually like .NET.

I have my misgivings about a lot of other MS products, but C# is just plain nice.

Don't laugh - they probably will.

You only have to code in .Net if you don't agree to put in an NSA back door.

I know yours is just a pithy joke, but I think a lot of this community has extreme NSA-fatigue, including myself. It's not enough that 50-90% of the stories on the front page are all related to the NSA scandal, but it also has to infest completely unrelated posts like this one.

I'd like to pretend that we're still a forum about technology and startups, as opposed to an ever so slightly higher-level form of /r/politics.

There there, it isn't good to lie to yourself like that.