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.

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True.

I'm so tired of these shitty "industry standards". Managers that shouldn't be there because they don't have a fucking idea of it read in their monthly EasyPC magazine featuring step-by-step guide to turn on your PC that OO/Java/.NET/XML/bells and whistles are kewl. Then they demand it, pretending to be experts. Hey, everybody else seems to be doing it, so it has to be good.

My boss ditched Java the second he saw what I could do in 2 hours of spare time with PHP.