When the heck did .NET took over????

I was looking at job vacancies and all of them all said to the point of must have exp in C# or ASP (for web programming).

When the heck did Microsoft took over??? I though C++ and PHP were reigning still.

I agree with the "Java, but less stupid" standpoint, but I still prefer a mix of C and C++ armed with a garbage collector.

Also, managed code is bullshit. Why wasting CPU and RAM like that when you can just compile to fucking native code? It's not like Microsoft's gonna support other platforms with it. Managed code is just a marketing produced, hype mongering, magazine fagging, manager fooling, resource wasting, system bloating piece of shit.