Abandoning some .NET developers did not help Microsoft as they are driven away and leaving Windows unloved. A lot of complaints about .NET were mentioned in USENET recently, quoting all sorts of people who are angry. One that caught our eye, from BusinessWeek, quotes: "Using .NET is like Fred Flintstone building a database," says David Siminoff, whose company owns the dating website JDate, which struggled with a similar platform issue. "The flexibility is minimal. It is hated by the developer community." ⬆