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I might be running more .NET software than I realize, but it seems to me that .NET isn't anywhere close to becoming the majority "instruction set" of software s

• 0x0 14y ago
  You can't blame them for lack of trying to push it though, no? :)
  • glhaynes 14y ago
    Agreed. Although Office staying Win32 sure doesn't send the signal to others that its worth the effort to move software like that to .NET. Anyway, I'm always surprised how few things seem to be .NET, here nearly 11 years after it was introduced.
• wslh 14y ago
  No, you need to port Win32, COM and other native libs.
  • 0x0 14y ago
    That's an easy problem to solve, as Microsoft would be around and able to supply that. As long as 3rd party software is delivered as .NET .exe files they should easily run, probably even when p/invoking, as long as the OS comes with the necessary standard .dlls. Actually I'm quite certain Windows RT already has all this solved under the hood.