Not to look at this the wrong way but for hating MS so much you guys sure did a 180 with this announcement. I personally am going to remain skeptical. When has anybody ever seen MS get into a "partnership" and follow through on their end? I have to wonder if this isn't just like what they did to SEGA with the WinCE/DirectX technology and Dreamcast. Its scary I think, especially since what I have read about .NET is that its damn near identical to DE in what it is supposed to do. I know that a lot of things from MS are supposed to work one way but don't very well most of the time, but .NET isn't supposed to be even in beta until later this year right? So MS buddies up with TAO/Amiga for intent and DE and then when they have learned what they need they will incorporate it into .NET and dump TAO/Amiga. Even though this means good promotion for Amiga and possibly some needed cash, I think they are playing with fire. I wouldn't have an problems with this if MS wasn't already working on .NET. If they just adopted DE/intent right at the get go then it would be fine, they wouldn't be developing a competing product while using DE. Why then spend the money developing .NET if they really wanted to use DE...at some point they will switch.
