Charles Wiltgen has written the first hype free explanation of .NET that I’ve ever seen, and it’s surprisingly positive, explaining things that I was still hazy on. (Haziness generally caused by the MS marketing machine.)

The article is aimed for the Mac OS tech-savvy, with lines like, “C# is to .NET as Objective-C is to Cocoa.” I think it’ll be clear in the non-technical points, but if there are any analogies you want to clear up, feel free to email me.

Longish essay coming up shortly on the new Microsoft security strategy. I wrote this yesterday, but it was eaten by an Internet glitch and I haven’t had the heart to rewrite it yet.

Update, April 12, 2002: Joel Spolsky, a programmer who generally really knows what he’s talking about, says that .NET is just about the greatest thing since sliced bread.