Yes, it's basically the evolution of the old pre-microsoft Mono and Xamarin IDE, not really comparable to the Windows version. It's great for writing iOS and Android apps with Xamarin but I haven't tried it for web development.

I'm going to recommend Canva [https://www.canva.com/\](https://www.canva.com/). I believe their free version allows you to create and edit videos. Also, Clipchamp is pretty easy and has a free plan, [https://clipchamp.com/en/\](https://clipchamp.com/en/). I believe Microsoft just acquired it as a replacement for Windows Movie Maker.

I've been very happy with Xamarin.Forms, coming into it with an existing C# WebForms and MVC experience. Even though Microsoft is embracing React Native, I don't see them pushing anyone away from Xamarin. Xamarin seems to have a strong community within Microsoft, and it gets better and more user-friendly with every release of Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio for Mac.

If anyone is working on this, it would probably be the major music notation software companies like Notion, Make Music's "Finale", or Sibelius. Most of them already have this functionality for monophonic input through a microphone, but it's designed more for playing a wind instrument or singing rather than wav or mp3 input. Google "Finale MicNotator HyperScribe" to see some examples of how to do it with Finale. There is also a company called SeventhString that publishes a program called "Transcribe!" that can help you do your own transcription from an mp3 or wav file by marking the wav display with it's best guess as to what the notes and chords are, but it doesn't do direct audio-to-notation conversion. However, it does have a "piano roll view" that looks promising.

Google Docs does this... under the Tools menu choose "Voice typing..." You might be able to play the recording into the microphone, or if the quality isn't very good you may need to actually listen to the recording using headphones or something and then use your own voice to repeat everything said in the meeting.

I installed one in a conference room for a video conferencing solution about 3 years ago, and it's still working great. I had to buy RAM and an SSD separately, but Amazon offers a lot of packages that include them. It also doesn't come with an OS, so budget that separately if you're planning on running Windows on it. The internal video has been fine for playing 1080p video as well as video conferencing using GoToMeeting and Zoom with a 1080p camera. Dell Optiplex also has a micro form factor. It's a little bigger than the NUC, but has more USB ports, full size HDMI, and comes with RAM, SSD, and an OS.

I actually asked this same question on Spiceworks and found an archived download of MovieMaker from archive.org. VideoPad from NCH is very similar to MovieMaker and really inexpensive. Adobe Premiere Elements is a great low-price paid solution.

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+1 for AOMI! I successfully used it to clone an old ASUS laptop to a SanDisk SSD. I have also been successful cloning to a Samsung SSD using the software that came with the new drive. Both were Win10.

Veeam Endpoint Backup is free and does a full-image backup. CrashPlan is another popular option with some good off-site options.

I also use git, a free Bitbucket account, and SourceTree as the client. I'm very happy with all three.

"I want to meet some developers who primarily program with C# and collaborate... " Maybe look for some .NET user groups, or Code Camps that specifically focus on the Microsoft development stack.

I did an extensive search for something free a couple years ago, and ended up just paying the $79 for Adobe Premiere Elements. It's well worth the cost.

We made the switch a few years ago and I agree with everything above. It was a pretty smooth transition, it's great not having to deal with an Exchange server anymore, and everyone I work with loves it now. Just about everything allows multiple logins - Gmail, Drive, Calendar, etc., even their mobile aps -- so you can use your personal and work accounts at the same time with no problem. I also agree that you should get everyone on the web clients. I don't even install Outlook on anyone's machines anymore.

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Look at CrashPlan. http://www.code42.com/crashplan/[^] You can backup to another computer over the internet from anywhere for free, or backup to their cloud for a monthly fee. For imaging you can use EasUS ToDo Backup. http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm[^] Do an image once a week or once a month to an external hard drive with ToDo Backup, and use CrashPlan for your daily file backups.

I really like BitBucket.org. Very easy to use, especially if you also use their Git client, SourceTree.

I originally chose Cordova because I wanted to learn the javascript tools associated with single-page-apps so that I would potentially be learning skills that I could use in my web development also. I have used it to port a SPA to mobile apps, and while there is a fairly steep learning curve at first, it actually works fairly well and there is a good community to help. Performance on older Android versions is slow, Android 4.2+ and iOS is much better but probably not as fast as native apps written with Xamarin would be.