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 can safely say that I believe Sharpples is way better than Sepples for simple tools and speed of development.

also .NET is p neat once you get used to it

maybe i've just given up