Carter Maslan

www.gapingvoid.com ?

I believe that marketing is more likely to be disinformation and misdirection than education.

Just look at the initial effect of marketing .Net Servers that had no .Net, nor .Net support.

I see enthusiasm, but what breakthrough app has made users want to install the framework? What ISV wants 25MB of baggage on their app install? What mainstream MS desktop app is based on it? When will Office, or something in Office, use it to get it out there?

James - I look at the .NET Framework as equivalent to 4 or 5 song downloads. It just doesn't seem like big baggage - especially when Microsoft serves up the bandwidth for the installation.
I'm not saying that the current .NET Framework deployment figure (about 25% of all PCs) is great; I'm just wondering which class of application views it as a problem that blocks adoption?

Nice analogy to the song downloads. I really have no data if any ISV is worried about it. What I don’t see is a mainstream desktop app that uses it. However, perhaps I am not looking hard enough. Here is a biggie … is conversion to .net in Office’s future?