Hey I'm not so much of a microsoft hater that I can't have a clear thought on their products. If I though that a microsoft product was good I would recomend it. In fact though I have a mac I still have microsoft word installed cause I think it is a superior product. Their end of line tools aren't bad just a rip of in terms of costings.
Anyway Dreamweaver MX - who needs that, just use some text editor that has syntax highlighting and then setup a development server on your local machine. You could install apache with php on a windows machine... or I'm not sure how but you could get IIS working and I think asp.
I have neer used asp apart from helping people, I have no idea about the benefits of using this commercial language. Php is great, there is a huge user community out there and it is rather simple and the best part it is FREE.
Oh and FORTRAN, FORTRAN ROCKS!!!!!!!!!