From Distributed computing to .NET
The best way to define .NET is to think about what .NET is going to do. Microsoft believes a silent shift to distributed computing is happening
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There are lots of examples of such distributed applications today
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Instant messaging, where you have a rich client that talks to a buddy list in the cloud and communicates with each other is the most used distributed applications
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So .NET is aimed at accelerating this next generation of distributed computing. This can be achieved in three steps
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There are three steps to make this distributed computing generation happen as fast as it can
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Web services: - The first step is that everything needs to be a web service. This applies to both pieces of software and resources in the network like storage
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Aggregation and integration: - The second step is that once you have these web services, you need to be able to aggregate and integrate these web services in very simple and easy ways
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Simple and compelling user experience: - The third step to accelerate distributed computing is you need to have a simple and compelling end user experience
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.NET is really aimed to accelerate the move to distributed computing.
