The word also has a strong association with devs who are immature or platform religious.

It's possible you would be ok working with others of this mindset, but I think you're better off w/out it.

No ad-homs intended, just wouldn't want you to miss opportunities with companies that frown upon being close-minded (but are still non-microsoft).

It's possible at the time of doing it I was platform religious and did a bad pun.

It's also possible I am still.

But you both make a valid point on it being perceived as immature, and so I will note it for the next time I use this.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm not certain I understand what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that you would prefer to work with a less 'serious' company that doesn't care about the $ in Micro$oft?

That plus, even though it is valid work experience, I have had enough of setting IIS, Exchange, Microsoft CRM, bad .NET accounting apps that use mdb as a DBMS, that I would prefer not to be on the position where I have to deal with that again.

So what you are saying is that you would prefer to just develop in and manage anything other than MS products?

Yes, but not just that.

If the company I am applying to bases their solutions on Microsoft products, odds are I am not the right fit for their open position, and somewhere on HR or in my task to find a job there has been an error.