.NET

A Microsoft operating system platform that incorporates applications, a suite of tools and services and a change in the infrastructure of the company's Web strategy.

There are four main principles of .NET from the perspective of the user:

• It erases the boundaries between applications and the Internet. Instead of interacting with an application or a single Web site, .NET will connect the user to an array of computers and services that will exchange and combine objects and data.
• Software will be rented as a hosted service over the Internet instead of purchased on a store shelf. Essentially, the Internet will be housing all your applications and data.
• Users will have access to their information on the Internet from any device, anytime, anywhere.
• There will be new ways to interact with application data, such as speech and handwriting recognition.

.NET depends on four Internet standards:

• HTTP
• XML
• SOAP
• UDDI

Microsoft views this new technology as revolutionary, enabling Internet users to do things that were never before possible, such as integrate fax, e-mail and phone services, centralize data storage and synchronize all of a users computing devices to be automatically updated.

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