"We still get people saying to us, 'What is .Net?'" Gates said at a conference held two weeks ago specifically to answer that question. "It's one of those great questions that people can say, 'Yes, it's come into focus at the infrastructure level,' but a little bit where we go beyond that has been unclear to people."
You’d have thought they would have learned their lesson from COM, OLE and ActiveX before this. I guess the slack caused by the Internet boom has taught even Microsoft bad habits.
From Jim Wilson: The .NETCF Resource site has been substantially updated and we now have the discussion group online.
If you have a questions about the .NET Compact Framework, information that you would like to share or you just want to see what other people are doing with the .NET Compact Framework, this is the list for you.