Windows Mobile 7 is out and Mango 7.5 is pre-release and about to hit market in a few weeks. According to sites like www.amplicate.com the platform has very good ratings. The gui is very well thoughout and it is identical to Windows 8 and syncs with your desktop much better than an Andriod (I do not know about Iphones).
You own the phone and there are other permissions too. Windows Mobile 6.5 and earlier frankly sucked. Microsoft has to prove itself after a decade of poor WindowsCE products. I think they finally nailed it and glad they started over fresh. Newer apps need to be rewritten but the mobile IE 9 has the same html5test.com score as the desktop version which is very interesting. I guess you wont have bugs like slashdot rendering poorly because it thinks my Andriod 2.1 phone is Chrome.
This is percisely why I chose an Andriod over an IPhone. In my opinion the Iphone is a sleeky and maybe even a supperior product. However, it is locked and tied down to Apple and you can forget about developing software for it without a mac. Itunes for Windows sucks.
Andriod was simply more open. Some of them even are rooted at the store like my mine. If you buy them under an agreement more than likely they will give you a crippled phone as you do not own it and they want you stuck in a payment plan.
Also I do not have to pay for development tools with Andriod either. XCode is no longer free so if I wanted to develop an IPhone app I would have to pay well over $1,000 for a mac, then $99 for an XCode account, and who knows what else for the SDK. With Andriod Java is free, eclipse is free (that is what the Andriod SDK tools use), and I can run on MacOSX, Windows, or Linux. Hmm gee I am going to pick Android.
Even though my phone is rooted I will say that DRM is a service running on my phone so they are not totally free I guess but I assume this is a requirement from Verizon and the media companies.
What I find more rediculous is how many geeks on slashdot who hate DRM censorship and bashed Windows Vista because of this go out and buy all the latest Iphones.
I am not saying this to be a troll here as I get modded down often due to my name, but I do scratch my head on this from people who only use Linux and use swear by GNU love their flashy IPhones.
When I was an undergrad I worked a crappy job at a Florida amusement park. Lightning capital of the world is in Pasco County Florida which was about 30 minutes away.
They generated their own power and the power lines and even the roller coasters were designed to be struck by lightning. Let me tell you they were struck every 3 or 4 days during the raining season in summer from the monsoons from the Carribean and Gulf. During a bad storm the power lines and rides could be struck 2 to 3 times each in a 30 minute period. They always kept running as soon as the storm would pass.
If a shitty amusement park can handle it I would think a datacenter would have much more expensive and critical components. Disney World in Orlando even generates its own power and powers part of Orlando.
Non-Americans do not have to pay for these outrageous coverage fees and poor service. You can be jealous which is understandable, but it is unsustainable and not fair to yourself and other workers.
Why not help someone do something about it. At the current rate people will be all out in the poor house paying over 50% of their paycheck to greedy HMOs by law.
YOu know Verizon was paying up to $17/hr for their call center where I lived and offered health insurance for its workers and pensions. The job sucks but it is well worth it if you have a famiy.
I noticed just a few days ago a lot of temp agencies are advertising, BIG TELECOM needs help desk workers, 13/hr, no pensions or benefits, all contract etc.
Now it seems to make sense. Verizon probably paid the temp agencies to quickly find workers to replace the good ones with cheaper ones so they can simply fire all the non union members or have ready replacements to save money.
I highly doubt Microsoft would get rid of VBA. It is the evil and glue that keeps customers locked in and gives PHB's who hate I.T. woodys who want to develop things quick and dirty in Excel rather than a real IDE.
Windows 8 has a problem with MS Office. If you notice closely in those video's the pretty tiled Metro UI loads but the demonstrators have to open the Windows 7 gui to actually open Excel.
So MS wants Office 15 to have a tile UI which needs HTML 5 and Javascript. I could be wrong, but I did find that pecular and in the demo videos and wondered if it was intentional that Corporate America would prefer the old GUI or if MS did not update the GUI code for Office yet.
Well I can tell you that cutting taxes to inrease revenues also proves it does not work either. Every republican but Reagan thought it was extreme and Bush SR even called it vodoo economics before 1980. Now it is this strange cult and anyone who disagrees is a radical socialist. Economists do not buy it. If you cite Reagan, I will say it was not until the recovery hit 2 years after his tax cuts and cheap gas. The curve was mathmatical proven false unless the tax rate is very high.
We gave tax cut after tax cut after tax cut. Hell half of the bailout went to tax cuts! Most Americans do not know this. Where are the new jobs it created?
Our tax rates are not high to do business. Right wing ideology again. Our personal income taxes are the lowest in pretty much any 1st world country. Deregulation also started the great recession as banks started gambling on Wall Street and flipping loans rather than investing their deposits to small businesses. If you give a tax break that money will go to China and we will pay the difference in interest as it is lost revenue in red ink for the goverment.
Or I might not vote unless a third party like Perot becomes popular.
I will not vote for Obama. He is a poor leader and created too much debt. However, if the tea party is the other side who created this mess then I will not vote for them either. I feel between them it is like a vote for Hitler or Stalin seriously.
Something needs to happen before we get guns and take control of government by force. The tea party in my uninformed opinion is dangerous, but so is partisan politics and those being bribed by lobbiests. I do not trust either party. If more people were active in the primaries this would not be a problem but if someone leans right they will have to appease the militan tea party nutcases.
I wish more people would know this and I find it sad that even on slashdot most people still buy it is more debt and how we are broke now without any understanding of facts other than what is spewed from Fox News.
Basically the fed reserve made a nightly loan that the banks paid back each day and retook and paid back and so on and so on. After 30 days it was $16 trillion, but it is more like I give you $1 and you give it back then I give it to you again and then you pay it back 16 times. Then I say I gave you $16 worth of debt when we only played hot potato. This is a lot like Beavis and Butthead in the girlscout cookie episode if you have seen it 15 years ago hehe?
This of course made the banks sheets better but the fed reserve did this to keep them afloat until the bailout became law. No money was lost in the process but it is strange accounting.
Not that I agree with what is going on, but I do wonder and feared what would of happened if we did nothing? Our debt to assets ratio would be much much worse if half of us were unemployed right now and so would our credit rating. This assumes we would enter an even worse depression than the 1930s and the fact is we do not know.
Sure they love gambling and making millions while the rest of us have real jobs that actually produce something of value. But Grandma's and the 50 year olds with decent 401ks provide their income to make money off of. In it they have certain allocations for bonds. If an elderly customer wants 70% AAA raiting for his bonds because he is too old for risk then the investor has to sell. If all the other investors are selling then he will have to do it at a loss to the customer. So yes that is bad as the investor losses and the investor sees the loss and decides not to spend to make up for the loss.
Because if you have a degree in economics you would then realize that comparing debt size is not adaquite since some countries have a higher GDP than others. Rather a GDP to assets ratio is used. In that ratio the US is fine compared to Japan, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and many other countries.
Our debt to assets ratio was much worse in the great depression and WW2 and the 1950s than today. Part of the problem is the low taxes this country has on the rich compared to the past and other countries.
Yes it is high, but if you did study economics 101 you would realize in a recession that people who are not working do not pay taxes. Also businesses that lose money do not pay taxes and so on. In good economic times like 2000 we had a surplus because.com companies and corporate America made bank and kept money here rather than outsource money and other assets overseas.
Trust me the US is fine and this is all right wing scare tactics and manufactored fabrication.
Compared to most countries the US is fine with the debt to assets ratio. We are not Greece or close to it. Japan has twice as much as the US and now has the same credit rating. How is that fair?
The tea party and the abuse of the fillabuster created this. Since no one can vote they purposedly waited then quickly tried to strong arm the President to get rid of the new deal or else they will harm America. Now they blame Obama as it is his fault for not screwing the poor and senior citizens. Fuck em.
The US has plenty of money still even in a recession and the problem is both a spending (American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) and lots and lots of tax cuts for the wealthy and job creators. They would rather have grandmas bag groceries and work 2 jobs then to give up their tennis courts and yatchs while the Chinese work 16 hours a day to pay their lifestyle since they are too cheap to hire Americans. They made sure the Republicans would not raise taxes OR ELSE.
Do I think the rate of spending is sustainable? No. Does it need to be cut? Yes, but right now is a terrible time and all the was a show to make sure a Republican can be in office in 2012.
Stopping fillabustering needs to be done as this abuse is what they republicans used to gain power by making the democrats look incompetent. Make sure the far right wing got their way when the democrats were in office. This downgrade is dangerous as many banks have treasury bonds with customer requirements stating must have certain percentage as AAA and so on.
Sorry if my post was strong as I tend to lean republican the past few years but I am very angry and think this is dangerous. I am not a troll in any sense of the means. The US has been responsible and has plenty of capital to pay its debt in the short term future regardless of Ron Paul and FoxNews have to say.
It does not matter if someone wants to do something about spending if they play a game of chicken and scare investors to fullfil some guys pledge at the expense of the people to make a point. Now with spooked investors it will be harder to pay it back. The US is not the same as a person that keeps taking on debt. Infact the debt ceiling is more akin to paying an existing bill rather than additional spending.
My fear is this abuse will be used to ban abortition, unions, campaing finance reform, and anything the far right wing wants or else they will harm the financial system. This will surely keep the bond ratings downgrading time and time again and it is not right.
"Macs aren't as vulnerable because they don't have a big enough footprint so they aren't stumbling upon the infected sites or aren't being targeted directly"
I am so sick of hearing this nonsense through every single security story. It is not true and never was and was made up by Microsoft. Read the article... or please read the summary? The article stated that mac's have weak default security and have more services that can be compromised open. The drivel about them always being equal in security and somehow it is always marketshare is a lie.
Usually Apple is more secure until the last 2-3 years.
Windows XP pre service pack 3 did not check for buffer overflows in strings and other primptives. Therefore it had as many security holes as swiss cheese not to mention IE executed all ActiveX controls and they had full administrative access. DCom/Com+ had more holes you could use. So they were hacked more.
Today, most malware targets flash and java which is multiplatform and never updated. After all updates make all operating systems more secure. But flash is very old in most computers. I will simply target flash and can pawn both a pc and a mac.
One of the reasons for choosing a Mac over a PC is that it is the responsibility of Apple and you do not need to worry about drivers and incompatibilities. Its in all in an integrated platform where you plug it in and work.
This issue of responsibility of hardware driver issues is why Windows sucks and also why Windows XP is still popular. People are afraid to upgrade their pc's with the OS that it came with. You are rolling dice when upgrading drivers or operating systems.
"It's not like Oracle is really going to be able to monetize it at this point anyway."
They have. They own Apache's code via patents. I find it bizaare that you can run someone else's compiler and libraries and be sued by a third person for using their property. Wouldn't it be bizaare if someone used your code and I came in and collected royalties on it? But that is exactly what is going on and Oracle is using Apache as a bait and switch to sue people. They donated Openoffice to them too and I smell a rat.
I can write a Java servlet and host it on a debian server. If I get more hits and need something more I can move the program to an Oracle or HP 64 CPU system. If it becomes the top 50th site in the world I can move the files to an IBM mainframe. Try that with.NET?
Unless you are doing something retarded using the RMI or checking for file versions (Intranet apps) they will run out of the box. If not you can modify it very very easily. I personally think some vendors did the "=" instead of ">=" so they can double dip and charge extra for the same apps..NET... ok how well will your 2002 era.Net 1.1 era app run on Windows Server 2012? What if you want to add NiHibernate compiled with.NET 3.5 with it?.NET is incompatible with itself and not just other platforms. Yes, you could port it but Java has it beat in that regards.
Rumor had it, that Microsoft stole several million lines of code from Java to make.NET.
J# was microsoft's version of Java and.NET was made for the Java platform as an alternative to Swing and the JFC. Needless to say Sun did not like this and tried to sue. Microsoft ended up settling with an agreement that they couldn't call it Java and that development on J# would cease in addition to Sun getting some cash for each version of visual studio sold. Microsoft decided that they should have their own Java like language instead, and hired the guy who wrote Borlands' Turbo Pascal and Delphi to design the language.
Microsoft is happy with C# and.NET and does not want to change. If anything I am sure they are opening champaign bottles and laughing at Oracle right now. After all, many new customers may come out of this deal and it will help kill Linux too. Sadly, I am thinking of going back to school and I am now interested in.NET and C# with Windows, rather than taking courses in Java. Microsoft may just as well be evil, but if I am going to open a.com company there is a good bet Java is dying and going the way of the IBM mainframe and as/400 and Cobol. It wont die but you sure as hell do not want to start with these platforms. MVC and other things make Microsoft fresh.
I wish IBM would have bought Sun or Borland (they make development software still?). Java 7 is turning into Java Vista.
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6.5 is old news and obsolete like Symbian.
Windows Mobile 7 is out and Mango 7.5 is pre-release and about to hit market in a few weeks. According to sites like www.amplicate.com the platform has very good ratings. The gui is very well thoughout and it is identical to Windows 8 and syncs with your desktop much better than an Andriod (I do not know about Iphones).
You own the phone and there are other permissions too. Windows Mobile 6.5 and earlier frankly sucked. Microsoft has to prove itself after a decade of poor WindowsCE products. I think they finally nailed it and glad they started over fresh. Newer apps need to be rewritten but the mobile IE 9 has the same html5test.com score as the desktop version which is very interesting. I guess you wont have bugs like slashdot rendering poorly because it thinks my Andriod 2.1 phone is Chrome.
This is percisely why I chose an Andriod over an IPhone. In my opinion the Iphone is a sleeky and maybe even a supperior product. However, it is locked and tied down to Apple and you can forget about developing software for it without a mac. Itunes for Windows sucks.
Andriod was simply more open. Some of them even are rooted at the store like my mine. If you buy them under an agreement more than likely they will give you a crippled phone as you do not own it and they want you stuck in a payment plan.
Also I do not have to pay for development tools with Andriod either. XCode is no longer free so if I wanted to develop an IPhone app I would have to pay well over $1,000 for a mac, then $99 for an XCode account, and who knows what else for the SDK. With Andriod Java is free, eclipse is free (that is what the Andriod SDK tools use), and I can run on MacOSX, Windows, or Linux. Hmm gee I am going to pick Android.
Even though my phone is rooted I will say that DRM is a service running on my phone so they are not totally free I guess but I assume this is a requirement from Verizon and the media companies.
My Samsung Galaxy S has root access. What's the problem?
What I find more rediculous is how many geeks on slashdot who hate DRM censorship and bashed Windows Vista because of this go out and buy all the latest Iphones.
I am not saying this to be a troll here as I get modded down often due to my name, but I do scratch my head on this from people who only use Linux and use swear by GNU love their flashy IPhones.
Ironically, if you or I bought a PO Box to avoid state taxes we would be thrown in jail. Why do businesses not worry about this?
When I was an undergrad I worked a crappy job at a Florida amusement park. Lightning capital of the world is in Pasco County Florida which was about 30 minutes away.
They generated their own power and the power lines and even the roller coasters were designed to be struck by lightning. Let me tell you they were struck every 3 or 4 days during the raining season in summer from the monsoons from the Carribean and Gulf. During a bad storm the power lines and rides could be struck 2 to 3 times each in a 30 minute period. They always kept running as soon as the storm would pass.
If a shitty amusement park can handle it I would think a datacenter would have much more expensive and critical components. Disney World in Orlando even generates its own power and powers part of Orlando.
Non-Americans do not have to pay for these outrageous coverage fees and poor service. You can be jealous which is understandable, but it is unsustainable and not fair to yourself and other workers.
Why not help someone do something about it. At the current rate people will be all out in the poor house paying over 50% of their paycheck to greedy HMOs by law.
YOu know Verizon was paying up to $17/hr for their call center where I lived and offered health insurance for its workers and pensions. The job sucks but it is well worth it if you have a famiy.
I noticed just a few days ago a lot of temp agencies are advertising, BIG TELECOM needs help desk workers, 13/hr, no pensions or benefits, all contract etc.
Now it seems to make sense. Verizon probably paid the temp agencies to quickly find workers to replace the good ones with cheaper ones so they can simply fire all the non union members or have ready replacements to save money.
Check ...
Me and the 7 million other unemployed Americans will be happy to take these jobs and will be proud to be non unionized. Keep it up union
I highly doubt Microsoft would get rid of VBA. It is the evil and glue that keeps customers locked in and gives PHB's who hate I.T. woodys who want to develop things quick and dirty in Excel rather than a real IDE.
Windows 8 has a problem with MS Office. If you notice closely in those video's the pretty tiled Metro UI loads but the demonstrators have to open the Windows 7 gui to actually open Excel.
So MS wants Office 15 to have a tile UI which needs HTML 5 and Javascript. I could be wrong, but I did find that pecular and in the demo videos and wondered if it was intentional that Corporate America would prefer the old GUI or if MS did not update the GUI code for Office yet.
Well I can tell you that cutting taxes to inrease revenues also proves it does not work either. Every republican but Reagan thought it was extreme and Bush SR even called it vodoo economics before 1980. Now it is this strange cult and anyone who disagrees is a radical socialist. Economists do not buy it. If you cite Reagan, I will say it was not until the recovery hit 2 years after his tax cuts and cheap gas. The curve was mathmatical proven false unless the tax rate is very high.
We gave tax cut after tax cut after tax cut. Hell half of the bailout went to tax cuts! Most Americans do not know this. Where are the new jobs it created?
Our tax rates are not high to do business. Right wing ideology again. Our personal income taxes are the lowest in pretty much any 1st world country. Deregulation also started the great recession as banks started gambling on Wall Street and flipping loans rather than investing their deposits to small businesses. If you give a tax break that money will go to China and we will pay the difference in interest as it is lost revenue in red ink for the goverment.
Or I might not vote unless a third party like Perot becomes popular.
I will not vote for Obama. He is a poor leader and created too much debt. However, if the tea party is the other side who created this mess then I will not vote for them either. I feel between them it is like a vote for Hitler or Stalin seriously.
Something needs to happen before we get guns and take control of government by force. The tea party in my uninformed opinion is dangerous, but so is partisan politics and those being bribed by lobbiests. I do not trust either party. If more people were active in the primaries this would not be a problem but if someone leans right they will have to appease the militan tea party nutcases.
Not true.
Again, the US debt to assets ratio is good compared to more than a half a dozen countries.
AIG made no income and betted agaisn't gambling errr investing $76 trillion in assets. That is scary.
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I wish more people would know this and I find it sad that even on slashdot most people still buy it is more debt and how we are broke now without any understanding of facts other than what is spewed from Fox News.
The $16 trillion was not made out like a loan.
Basically the fed reserve made a nightly loan that the banks paid back each day and retook and paid back and so on and so on. After 30 days it was $16 trillion, but it is more like I give you $1 and you give it back then I give it to you again and then you pay it back 16 times. Then I say I gave you $16 worth of debt when we only played hot potato. This is a lot like Beavis and Butthead in the girlscout cookie episode if you have seen it 15 years ago hehe?
This of course made the banks sheets better but the fed reserve did this to keep them afloat until the bailout became law. No money was lost in the process but it is strange accounting.
Not that I agree with what is going on, but I do wonder and feared what would of happened if we did nothing? Our debt to assets ratio would be much much worse if half of us were unemployed right now and so would our credit rating. This assumes we would enter an even worse depression than the 1930s and the fact is we do not know.
Yes they will.
Sure they love gambling and making millions while the rest of us have real jobs that actually produce something of value. But Grandma's and the 50 year olds with decent 401ks provide their income to make money off of. In it they have certain allocations for bonds. If an elderly customer wants 70% AAA raiting for his bonds because he is too old for risk then the investor has to sell. If all the other investors are selling then he will have to do it at a loss to the customer. So yes that is bad as the investor losses and the investor sees the loss and decides not to spend to make up for the loss.
Because if you have a degree in economics you would then realize that comparing debt size is not adaquite since some countries have a higher GDP than others. Rather a GDP to assets ratio is used. In that ratio the US is fine compared to Japan, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and many other countries.
Our debt to assets ratio was much worse in the great depression and WW2 and the 1950s than today. Part of the problem is the low taxes this country has on the rich compared to the past and other countries.
Yes it is high, but if you did study economics 101 you would realize in a recession that people who are not working do not pay taxes. Also businesses that lose money do not pay taxes and so on. In good economic times like 2000 we had a surplus because .com companies and corporate America made bank and kept money here rather than outsource money and other assets overseas.
Trust me the US is fine and this is all right wing scare tactics and manufactored fabrication.
BS
Compared to most countries the US is fine with the debt to assets ratio. We are not Greece or close to it. Japan has twice as much as the US and now has the same credit rating. How is that fair?
The tea party and the abuse of the fillabuster created this. Since no one can vote they purposedly waited then quickly tried to strong arm the President to get rid of the new deal or else they will harm America. Now they blame Obama as it is his fault for not screwing the poor and senior citizens. Fuck em.
The US has plenty of money still even in a recession and the problem is both a spending (American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) and lots and lots of tax cuts for the wealthy and job creators. They would rather have grandmas bag groceries and work 2 jobs then to give up their tennis courts and yatchs while the Chinese work 16 hours a day to pay their lifestyle since they are too cheap to hire Americans. They made sure the Republicans would not raise taxes OR ELSE.
Do I think the rate of spending is sustainable? No. Does it need to be cut? Yes, but right now is a terrible time and all the was a show to make sure a Republican can be in office in 2012.
Stopping fillabustering needs to be done as this abuse is what they republicans used to gain power by making the democrats look incompetent. Make sure the far right wing got their way when the democrats were in office. This downgrade is dangerous as many banks have treasury bonds with customer requirements stating must have certain percentage as AAA and so on.
Sorry if my post was strong as I tend to lean republican the past few years but I am very angry and think this is dangerous. I am not a troll in any sense of the means. The US has been responsible and has plenty of capital to pay its debt in the short term future regardless of Ron Paul and FoxNews have to say.
It does not matter if someone wants to do something about spending if they play a game of chicken and scare investors to fullfil some guys pledge at the expense of the people to make a point. Now with spooked investors it will be harder to pay it back. The US is not the same as a person that keeps taking on debt. Infact the debt ceiling is more akin to paying an existing bill rather than additional spending.
My fear is this abuse will be used to ban abortition, unions, campaing finance reform, and anything the far right wing wants or else they will harm the financial system. This will surely keep the bond ratings downgrading time and time again and it is not right.
"Macs aren't as vulnerable because they don't have a big enough footprint so they aren't stumbling upon the infected sites or aren't being targeted directly"
I am so sick of hearing this nonsense through every single security story. It is not true and never was and was made up by Microsoft. Read the article ... or please read the summary? The article stated that mac's have weak default security and have more services that can be compromised open. The drivel about them always being equal in security and somehow it is always marketshare is a lie.
Usually Apple is more secure until the last 2-3 years.
Windows XP pre service pack 3 did not check for buffer overflows in strings and other primptives. Therefore it had as many security holes as swiss cheese not to mention IE executed all ActiveX controls and they had full administrative access. DCom/Com+ had more holes you could use. So they were hacked more.
Today, most malware targets flash and java which is multiplatform and never updated. After all updates make all operating systems more secure. But flash is very old in most computers. I will simply target flash and can pawn both a pc and a mac.
One of the reasons for choosing a Mac over a PC is that it is the responsibility of Apple and you do not need to worry about drivers and incompatibilities. Its in all in an integrated platform where you plug it in and work.
This issue of responsibility of hardware driver issues is why Windows sucks and also why Windows XP is still popular. People are afraid to upgrade their pc's with the OS that it came with. You are rolling dice when upgrading drivers or operating systems.
This isn't the first time this has happened.
"It's not like Oracle is really going to be able to monetize it at this point anyway."
They have. They own Apache's code via patents. I find it bizaare that you can run someone else's compiler and libraries and be sued by a third person for using their property. Wouldn't it be bizaare if someone used your code and I came in and collected royalties on it? But that is exactly what is going on and Oracle is using Apache as a bait and switch to sue people. They donated Openoffice to them too and I smell a rat.
I will never leave Java 6.
I do not agree with the EULA for Java 7. I will go to .NET, before I go to Java 7
Are you kidding me?
I can write a Java servlet and host it on a debian server. If I get more hits and need something more I can move the program to an Oracle or HP 64 CPU system. If it becomes the top 50th site in the world I can move the files to an IBM mainframe. Try that with .NET?
Unless you are doing something retarded using the RMI or checking for file versions (Intranet apps) they will run out of the box. If not you can modify it very very easily. I personally think some vendors did the "=" instead of ">=" so they can double dip and charge extra for the same apps. .NET ... ok how well will your 2002 era .Net 1.1 era app run on Windows Server 2012? What if you want to add NiHibernate compiled with .NET 3.5 with it? .NET is incompatible with itself and not just other platforms. Yes, you could port it but Java has it beat in that regards.
Rumor had it, that Microsoft stole several million lines of code from Java to make .NET.
J# was microsoft's version of Java and .NET was made for the Java platform as an alternative to Swing and the JFC. Needless to say Sun did not like this and tried to sue. Microsoft ended up settling with an agreement that they couldn't call it Java and that development on J# would cease in addition to Sun getting some cash for each version of visual studio sold. Microsoft decided that they should have their own Java like language instead, and hired the guy who wrote Borlands' Turbo Pascal and Delphi to design the language.
Microsoft is happy with C# and .NET and does not want to change. If anything I am sure they are opening champaign bottles and laughing at Oracle right now. After all, many new customers may come out of this deal and it will help kill Linux too. Sadly, I am thinking of going back to school and I am now interested in .NET and C# with Windows, rather than taking courses in Java. Microsoft may just as well be evil, but if I am going to open a .com company there is a good bet Java is dying and going the way of the IBM mainframe and as/400 and Cobol. It wont die but you sure as hell do not want to start with these platforms. MVC and other things make Microsoft fresh.
I wish IBM would have bought Sun or Borland (they make development software still?). Java 7 is turning into Java Vista.