Build business apps in .NET - not HTML or JavaScript

My problem with this article is that the author defines his problem away. "Sovereign app", "user paid to use the app", he gets to the point where just about the only thing to do is write a .NET app. He explicitly disallows clever/disruptive apps, the kind that just might negate the need for a "sovereign app".

1. Primarily a C# developer

2. In charge of the IT needs for an agency of 250+ computers

3. Currently have over 20 Microsoft certifications in Development and Server technology.

Having said all that let me say he's completely wrong. Not only is he wrong he can't be very dialed in to his own community because almost everyone I talk to in the Microsoft business app arena is an ASP.NET developer at this point. I don't know anyone developing desktop apps anymore.

Beyond that he seems to be one of those developers who thinks a business app means stuff like the Entity Framework (Microsoft's overly complicated data modeling tool). Hence his belief that "the tools don't exist to write his app in JS/HTML5" or that "there is no place to learn how to make HTML/JS business apps" (someone should point him to all those IBM guides on Python)

Finally the root of his misconceptions is this idea that "Windows is the only OS that matters in Business Apps". I'm sorry but that just isn't true anymore. At least not if you look to the future. Microsoft's Metro interface is more foreign to users than the Mac is and the Mac connects to existing Domain servers.

So I, and many other people I know, are starting to give serious consideration to using Macs in the near future. Especially with users adopting iPhones and iPads (and no it doesn't matter how much sense a Windows 8 tablet makes if the CEO of your company loves his iPad and wants everyone to have one).

Bottom Line: This is a person living in 2008

Even Enterprise companies that run .NET are mostly trying to get off of it, and so unlikely to want to acquire more .NET code.

If that's a good reason NOT to build in .NET, I don't know what is

If you go back to your date of 2008 MS devs where on top of the world, quite smug, standing on pedestals, lauding over other programmers... The whole Balmer "developer developers developers" summed up the buzz in the community.

What I've seen just recently is the completely opposite, theres fear in the community, theres a lot of people who built there careers on the coat tails of MS... and MS seems to be failing them. Microsoft aren't helping the situation by being cagey about the future of there platform.

Theres lots of talk of other platforms at the meetings, people asking equations like "What others languages have you used?" , "Can you use Objective-C?", and of cause discussions around those types of questions. Others usually very opinionated seem very quiet. Its not the saw community I've been mulling with for the last decade.

MS is loosing the loyalty of its developers in my group, and if this is wide spread then I think you're going to see more and more articles like this, proclaiming more and more outrageous claims about why MS is the best.

For me, I've halted my windows development and started porting my apps to Objective-C, Java, and python. I can't be bothered with uncertainty. OSX is stable for me, I like the interface (and it doesn't get in my way like Win7 and Win8 does), and although I really enjoy C# and visual studio I'm prepared to give other things ago.