> For .NET to make it, they would need some kind of killer app -- something that makes people use .NET despite whatever natural inclinations they may have. I d

> For .NET to make it, they would need some kind of killer app -- something that makes people use .NET despite whatever natural inclinations they may have. I don't see that happening. By "people" do you mean developers or end users? Because if you mean end users, every end user of Windows uses some program that's built in .Net every day. End users don't care, as long as it works. If you mean developers, developers go where the people are, for better or worse. There are a lot of people using i-devices, so Objective C lives and will continue to live. There are a lot of people and companies using Windows machines, so .Net lives and will continue to live.