From: Adam 

Mike N. wrote:

> On Tue, 17 May 2005 13:17:10 -0400, "Gary Britt"

> wrote:
>
>
>>Why use .Net at all??  Since .Net runs in a runtime environment and only on
>>Win32, why use .Net at all?  I mean why not just cut out the runtime layer
>>bloat and go straight to win32 programming??
>
>
>    It depends on available developer resources, target installation, and
> application goals.  A good reason to go with .Net is reduced development
> time due to a large library.  A good reason to avoid .Net is for the
> reasons you mentioned - smaller runtime memory usage, often faster speed,
> compatibility with older platforms (W98, etc).
>

& it's a way round the many/fragmented windows versions/distributions 

Adam

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