.NET and XML

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To start off with I'd just like to say that I'm not a programmer or anything so I don't know exactly how XML or .NET works, but from what I understand XML is a new free-form language that Microsoft is developing. .Net is a framework for programs made with this language. .NET is apparently not a windows-only type architecture and is eventually supposed to be able to work on LINUX and Mac machines.

What I don't understand though is, what is Microsoft getting out of all of this? They spend millions developing this new language and this new framework, but it's not something that they intend to keep for themselves--they're just giving it away.

I thought about this for a while, but I just couldn't see any answer. I was hoping that someone on this forum, someone who actually knows what they are talking about, could answer this for me.
 
By developing these new languages (as they did with VB) they are able to develop new software (such as new versions of Windows and server based Windows operating systems). Languages such as ASP (XML, .NET) are very powerful and allow other software/web developers to do much more, in much easier ways. As languages such as COBOL are slowly fading (but never disappearing) and other programming languages such as XML and .NET are the wave of the future.

Developing new languages simply allow software/web developers to do more. In the end, Microsoft still makes out.
 

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