well we all kinda saw this comin... the problem is that the people who read this site and others like it are not starting up companies based on .net and other microsoft technologies. companies nowadays start in the basement, garage, grad school project with zero funding and no software costs.
beyond the economy of it all there is the cool factor. microsoft is just not cool and all the cool kids play with the cool toys like ruby, python, erlang, memcached and on and on. this creates a neat little ecosystem of interconnected like minded people who chat with each other on irc and twitter.
the only coolish tech that i see from microsoft is silverlight... but guess what? the backend for any forward facing silverlight app will most likely be done with non microsoft tech :)
beyond the economy of it all there is the cool factor. microsoft is just not cool and all the cool kids play with the cool toys like ruby, python, erlang, memcached and on and on. this creates a neat little ecosystem of interconnected like minded people who chat with each other on irc and twitter.
the only coolish tech that i see from microsoft is silverlight... but guess what? the backend for any forward facing silverlight app will most likely be done with non microsoft tech :)