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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Trying to be cool by JohnHegarty · 2002-02-13 10:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

I think its Microsoft trying to be cool..... because that java thing went well... didn't it...

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You want the collective /. answer? by gosand · 2002-02-13 10:53 · Score: 4, Redundant

The collective /. answer is probably "Microsoft's latest secret method for leveraging their monopoly to take over the world."
IMHO, that is probably pretty darn accurate. Nobody knows exactly how just yet. Yeah, it sounds like I am paranoid, I have good reason to be.
Microsoft^H^H^H^Hpoly

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