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My recollection is that .NET was largely a research project within Microsoft around 1997. It was when ScottGu used .NET to build ASP.NET (circumventing many lim

My recollection is that .NET was largely a research project within Microsoft around 1997. It was when ScottGu used .NET to build ASP.NET (circumventing many limitations of Classic ASP that he also helped build) that .NET took off as a viable commercial platform ushering in further development and extended language support including F#.

agumonkey 8y ago
really ? Gates promoted heavily his idea of network OS hinting a .Net as the foundation. Maybe I misunderstood or maybe it came later ...
pjmlp 8y ago
.NET percursor, Ext-VOS was supposed to be an improvement on COM, COM Runtime. Then they pivoted it into a managed runtime.