Well, .NET is a programming layer, it not only provides extra features for programming, but also provides the ability to run code across networks / internet... Hence the name. That in itself should show what I mean there, and Vista is very much soaked in such similar code. Yes, 2 partially different things, but both using the very same code.
Yes, google are pushing such technologies, as are HP, Dell, Even IBM and yes, MicroSoft too! - over 30 big such companies are involved in this.
I am not 100% where I read about this, but the European Union, and indeed nearly all of asia were up in arms about it because these american companies were trying to control everything through such technologies as .NET and the control they were giving themselves was going way beyond what was justified.
Its that, that is scaring me.
