Why .NET?

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What is wrong with the Win32 API (aka Windows API), so that .NET is necessary or better?

Considering the existence of Wine, are .NET applications really more portable than Win32 applications?

Or is it that somebody at MS just decided one day: Hey, let's compete with Java, and deprecate our own API in the process?

Regards,
Michael

Posted on Jun 20, 2011, 4:30 PM

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