The History of .NET
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A concise timeline of decisions and outcomes: Microsoft moves from languages company to platform builder, ships CLR and C# (2002) and ASP.NET, bets on designers and WPF/Silverlight for rich clients, then loses Silverlight reach when iOS blocks plugins (Silverlight dead on iOS). Mono evolves into Xamarin to put C# on iOS and Android (Mono/Xamarin brings C# to iOS and Android). Recent years deliver a ground-up rewrite as .NET Core (1.0 in 2016, Core 2.0 now), Visual Studio tooling, and Azure—workable cross‑platform runtimes and a mature ecosystem.
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chapters (41)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:57Podcasts
- 4:48Humanitarian Toolbox
- 6:18The 1980s
- 7:04The 90s
- 9:32The 98s
- 11:12Bill Gates
- 11:34Anticompetitive practices
- 12:35Time Magazine cover
- 13:01Bill and Steve
- 14:31Three Core Groups
- 14:51Runtime
- 16:33Scott Guthrie
- 18:36NET
- 19:47Windows 2000
- 20:57PDC 2001
- 22:33Windows XP
- 26:49PDC 2003
- 29:38SP2 2004
- 30:42SP2 2005
- 33:13Windows Vista
- 34:51iPhone
- 35:31Silverlight
- 37:33Chrome
- 38:16Ray Ozzie
- 39:17Steven Sinofsky
- 39:31Windows Azure
- 39:56The Big iPhone
- 41:06Studio 2010
- 42:03Professional Developers Conference
- 43:25JavaScript
- 44:31First Build Conference
- 45:47Miguel de Icaza
- 46:24Xamarin
- 46:42Studio 2012
- 47:19Build 2012
- 47:44Build 2013
- 49:20TheNET Foundation
- 50:35Edge Browser
- 51:23NET Core
- 52:09What Comes Next
