In manys eyes it is quite the opposite: Netbeans and Eclipse used to run circles around VS. I understand a lot of people like VS and there have been improvements lately bur please don't spread FUD on HN. Thanks.
Having been a user of all of them for... as long as they have existed (oh God)... Visual Studio has been my preferred software at the time that each version existed. Even the much-maligned Visual Studio .NET 2002 seemed relatively faster and less error-prone than the then-current release of Eclipse. The decision to use Eclipse was usually a cost or programming language issue. You don't code Java in Visual Studio. There were many times, if I could have, I would have plunked down the cash.
Today, I try to setup my projects to be editor-agnostic, but I still end up using VS Express 2013 for Web when I'm working from a Windows machine. When I'm not, I'm not using Eclipse, I'm using something much lighter, like Vi or Geany.
The world is made a better place when people post from a wealth of real world personal experience and cheapened by those that who do not. Please refrain.