Brad: Just read The Dot Com Reckoning

I just finished reading quite a few things at your site, actually. Good stuff.

Regarding the dot com reckoning, though...the tag at the end is what I wanted to ask about. " Stardock launched its .Net initiative in the summer of 1999 with creation of its Application Service Provider (ASP) Stardock.net and its first service - The Object Desktop Network (www.objectdesktop.net)."

Is that what the hell .Net is supposed to be? Maybe I'm ignorant here, but ever since Microsoft started with this .Net, I haven't been able to figure out precisely what exactly it *is.*

ObjectDesktop.net is a .Net "application?" "System?" "Architecture?" What's the right technospeak for that, anyway?

If it's that simple, why hasn't Microsoft been able to make people understand it? Every IT guy I know scratches his head the same way I do when asked to explain it. At least know I can offer an example of how it's supposed to work.

Two years as a subscriber and I had no idea it was a .Net...uhh...thingy.

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c242

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I thought is was something like a butterfly net, only for catching dots.

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Microsoft's .NET encompasses a TON of things. But one thing that .NET is meant to be is to be able to seamlessly provide services via the Internet using a standard mechanism.

If all websites conformed to the same specificiatons for querying data, then applications could be more easily made to retrieve info.

Object Desktop isn't a Microsoft .NET spec'd product (the tools and APIs are still too new). But it is a software product provided as a service.

Object Desktop is about allowing users to take Windows to the next level. A very vague mission. As such, the features and components of it evolve over time relatively quickly to other programs (Photoshop of 1999 is pretty much the same as Photoshop 2002 but Object Desktop of 1999 is vastly different than OD of 2002).

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