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What is .NET?
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.""
Those crazy folks at microsoft keep messing things up! ".net" has just made zone.com inconvenient (the only ms service I use), and all the other msn stuff is worse. .NET has launched, but it hasn't proven any advantage.
.net either, make your customers happy and don't use it.
It's not just that I'm a MS hater, the other Zone users don't like
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
To Microsoft, the only developers that count are the ones with $1,079 and more. That does mean big corporations and others with plenty of $$$. And Microsoft wants to favor those with $$$ so they can get more of that $$$ by creating a platform that requires more machines to run. More machines means more installed systems and more $$$ goes back to Microsoft. Microsoft can easily afford this because it is part of the strategy to cause more $$$ to be shifted to them. That is what business is about, like it or not (personally, I don't like it, but I deal with it).
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
A complilation of Microsoft technologies that looks like a block of Swiss cheese.
A virtual keychain - a place to put all your important information and loose it ALL at the same time.
Apple is like a strange drug that you just cant quite get enough of they shouldnt call it Mac. They should call it crack