I'm sorry but you are incorrect. VS needs admin rights to install into Program Files, registry updates and GAC install, etc. Otherwise the apps a developer builds are run in in their own process and unless there are special circumstances, should not need admin privs; VS should never be run as admin apart from those special circumstances.
Talk to him a lot and ask questions with follow up why, where, when, etc. Also the more you expose him to, the more he learns, take him yo see a real train, a real truck, etc and explain what it is. Most importantly show love and give them fun. I love playing sports with my boys or just wrestling around. Every sat and sun we go for a 1 - 2 hr trip on a red wagon in the park, they throw sticks, rocks, etc. KISS
We are buying two PROs the minute they come out. They have expandable memory slots and the beauty of having a nice tablet and a full blown laptop is great. My wife can't wait for it to come out.
I see it as an over reaction with people spreading bad news like the Mayans are changing world ending dates. Now everyone agrees that its popular to talk about how bad Windows 8 is and what the next End of World date is, but those people have not experienced at least one of those and more likely neither. Windows RT is store apps and Pro is store apps plus traditional apps. Naysayers... pffst! I'll stick to my nice Windows 8 Pro install because its pretty bad ass!
I second this, Nokia Maps is awesome and the many times I used it, it has not let me down and the experience was good. Also I've noticed that my Lumia can very quickly get a GPS signal vs iPhone and some Android phones I've used; this is very useful when you need a shortcut.
oh, JavaScript you say? I stopped on jQuery! Everything else sort of flutters by... too much! Especially since .NET is going insane right now with kick-ass magic! So I'm still trying to catch up on .NET stuff and the JavaScript is sort of passing in another lane, but I'm like the old lady who won't take my eyes off of my lane beacuse I'm too scared to let go of the wheel that I'm barely hanging on to.
Exhausting as it may seem, its far cooler than 10 years ago! As another reason pointed out, use what you like.
ASP.NET MVC - check
LINQ - check
EntityFramework - check
Thanks you for writing this, I'm on my tablet so it would have been difficult. My thoughts EXACTLY!!! In fact this seems like Google trying to take advantage of PHP getting some bad PR recently and pointing people to use Go and inadvertently, Apps Engine.