[eropple]

Most developers use Windows, where VS Professional (under the badge of VS Community) is free. The set of developers who use Linux and OS X (and I mean, I am one) is not representative of developers of a whole.

[mmgutz]

You mean most .NET developers use Windows?

[eropple]

I mean most developers, period, use Windows, on a worldwide basis. Most web developers use Windows. Most C/C++ developers use Windows. Most Android developers use Windows. Almost all .NET developers use Windows--but most developers, period, use Windows.

Windows is the de facto standard in most places that aren't chasing the leading edge.

[kuschku]

> I mean most developers, period, use Windows, on a worldwide basis.

I’m not sure anyone would agree with that.

Unless you also count designers, and kids who just learnt how to click together a website in Frontpage 2000 as developers.

Especially if you count compsci graduates, it becomes very obvious just how much *nix dominates.

[eropple]

Sure! Unless you have ever, even once, stopped to glance at the overwhelming majority of line-of-business programmers that outnumber your notion of "developers" five to one or more.

But good job with the warrantless and wrong contempt.