MS Vista & .NET

March 16, 2006 @ 12:43 pm · Filed under General, Programming

An interesting article about new Microsoft Vista and .NET: Analysis of .NET Use in Longhorn and Vista by Richard Grimes.

“My conclusion is that Microsoft has lost its confidence in .NET. They implement very little of their own code using .NET. The framework is provided as part of the operating system, but this is so that code written by third party developers can run on Vista without the large download of the framework. Supplying the .NET runtime for third party developers in this way is similar to Microsoft supplying msvbvm60.dll as part of XP.” 

I agree with those who say that Vista core should not be made with .NET, but I’d expect much more MS applications delivered with OS to be developed with .NET, especially Visual Studio. I’m interested to see important MS applications, money generators, developed with .NET as a strong assertion for its capabilities and power. By comparison, Java Studio Creator & Java Studio Enterprise is build with Java.

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