[andysinclair]

In some circles it would be considered negative.

For example, I have spent most of my career using Microsoft developer tools building LOB applications. I think the MS dev toolset is great.

At one point I was involved in building a consumer web app and attended various "startup" community events. I would start chatting to people (generally Rails/PHP devs) and as soon as I mentioned I was building a web app using MS tech they would look at me as if I was mad. Sometimes they would even make excuses to stop chatting and find somebody else to talk to - I concluded from this that there is definitely some anti MS feeling within the startup community.

Anyway, this has gone off topic, but thought it was worth mentioning. BTW, one of my colleagues has just started using Knockout and thinks it is great!