The end of last month marked the third anniversary of Microsoft's launch of its .Net strategy, which executives such as Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said at the time was a "bet-the-company thing." But three years later, reactions are mixed as to whether that strategy, along with the vision that accompanied it, has played out as the Redmond, Wash., software developer had hoped.-- .NET: 3 years of the 'Vision' Thing[...]
"Three years later, most of the hopes behind the .Net initiative have not been realized," [Rob] Helms [research director for Directions on Microsoft] said, adding that .Net has now almost vanished from Microsoft's vocabulary.
