OK so I got SICK of the horrible midunderstandings written about .NET on Wikipedia...so much so that I rewrote much of it.

As of right now, 95% .NET 2.0 material written at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_.NET was written by me. The only parts I didn't write were the top two 'changes in 2.0' bullets. I added all other .NET 2.0 content.

Here are some snippets I added regarding .NET 2.0

".NET 2.0 is a severe redesign of not only the technology, but also the model of Microsoft's .NET agenda. While .NET v1.x was considered more of a Rapid Application Development (RAD) model and was often compared with Sun's Java. C# 2.0, part of the .NET 2.0 model, is now compared more closely with C++, so much so infact, that large portions of Microsoft's Windows Vista are written in C# and the .NET framework."

I also added information about how .NET was NOT the competition for Java, but was infact originally intended to be COM+ 2.5 by one team and "Next-Generation Web Services" by another. In addition, I removed anything about .NET 2.0 betas and updated the information about the express editions to be more proper.

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