I went skiing at Big Sky with bunch of Microsofties as part of Microsoft ski club back in 1999. One of them was a pretty big guy who on the first day of skiing took a bad tumble and threw out his knee. He had to stay at the chalet for most of the rest of the trip, missing out on some glorious snow. I remember asking him what he did while recuperating and he showed me what became .NET. He said it was going to be awesome and transformational, with many other nice adjectives. I didn't really get that from his demo, it was pretty rough, but yeah, he was right. I've been Csharping almost every workday since it came out as 1.0 and its an excellent framework, especially these days where it runs everywhere.
