Your votes, please. 
I'm not usually one to be sold on Microsoft hype, but I am quite
impressed with Visual Studio .NET; it has a few rough edges that need to
be cleaned up in the next service release or version, but it is a vast
and huge improvement over their previous Visual Studio products (esp.
Visual Basic). Of course, if your anti-Windows then you won't want it.
But if you put your feelings aside and want to learn a tool that will be
most useful in the job market, I think 
VS.NET is a good one to know.
   - Bob Lafleur
     (programmer for 25+ years)