What is .NET?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday February 13, 2002 @10:20AM from the funny-you-should-ask dept.

CyberBry writes "There's a great technical overview of Microsoft .NET over at arstechnica: "In a remarkable feat of journalistic sleight-of-hand, thousands of column inches in many "reputable" on-line publications have talked at length about .NET whilst remaining largely ignorant of its nature, purpose, and implementation. Ask what .NET is, and you'll receive a wide range of answers, few of them accurate, all of them conflicting. Confusion amongst the press is rampant. The more common claims made of .NET are that it's a Java rip-off, or that it's subscription software. The truth is somewhat different.""

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Re:Finally? Java has been out for about 5 years by Malcontent · 2002-02-13 20:45 · Score: 1, Flamebait

So let me get this straight. .NET is better then Java because MS makes it.

In fact MS products are better then anything else because MS makes them. If anybody else makes any other product it will automatically be inferior because "biggest OS vendor" is not pushing them.

I always thought VB programmers were idiots now I know.

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