No, Saro Dursun is a fraudster. I don't remember all the details but she Imigrated to Sweden in the 60/70s with another persons papers stating she was 65+ when she was in fact 40-something. 65 is the retirement age in Sweden...

I don't think that bothers him. He has discussed his views and tastes regarding pornography (with explicit examples) before on his site. He also has a travellog from Las Vegas that includes a visit to a prostitute. He's quite a character and his site includes posts about everything from math and tech to the stuff I mentioned above.

That it doesn't bother him is not the problem; that it may bother his potential employers is.

When looking at his site from the point of view of someone who could be interested in hiring him, it certainly leaves a strong impression - but unfortunately, not a positive one.

One reason is ambiguity, this is an extreme example but shows a bit of the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_D...

MonoGame mirrors XNA down to the namespace names so that's a very suitable replacement. You also have Unity of course.

WebClient is mentioned on here http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/. It's not just the compiler.

He asked for (relatively) low risk alternatives though.

Invest little money then. That could still become a significant retirement fund for him after a few years.

That said, I think Bitcoin is low risk if you secure your coins properly. I don't think there is much risk of the price going down to zero.

You get the full Office 2013 suite with most x86 tablets nowadays (which you won't when you buy a Surface oddly enough). For me that definitely played a part in my decision to get an Asus T100.

For me it correctly reports it as IE11. I am also using it in modern mode and have the exact same user agent string.

They have already proven that WP can run on low spec hardware though with the Lumia 520. It's also a 1GHz, 512MB RAM device.

Lumia 520 has MSM8227, it is not that low end. It is dual core Snapdragon S4 with Adreno 305. Nexus 7 (2013) is not that much powerful.

As a sidenote regarding iOS, you could checkout http://www.robovm.org/. It's already used for running libgdx (a Java game framework for a number of platforms) games on iOS for example.