The Microsoft .NET initiative is all-encompassing, ever-present, and in certain ways, brand-new—but the underlying technologies have been with us for some time. In this article, we’ll explore the ...

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At the heart of the Microsoft-eBay alliance announced Monday is an understanding by both companies that the Web is moving to a new model in which applications are delivered as component services and ...

Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...

Microsoft has generated so much hype about .NET that many are wondering whether the software giant’s technology for connecting information, people, systems and devices can live up to its billing. .NET ...

With the release last year of .NET 5, Microsoft switched its platform development away from the 20-year-old .NET Framework to the newer, cross-platform, open source .NET Core. The .NET Framework has ...

But times have changed. Today, Shiah's career path finds him at the helm of his own software firm, Ascentn, a business-process management (BPM) vendor in Mountain View, Calif. Despite an abiding love ...

COMMENTARY--NET is a difficult technology to explain to non-programmers because .NET is developer-oriented technology. Many of the features of .NET don't make sense unless you know a lot about ...

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Microsoft’s open-sourcing of server-side .Net technologies is a big step for the longtime king of proprietary desktop software. But the move itself is of limited impact, and .Net has a long way to go ...