> Windows initially sat on top of DOS...

"Initially". ?? Still does :-)

> The way I see it - .NET will eventually, somehow, become the platform itself
> (maybe 64-bit).

As a bytecode interpreter? So I am going to write my services/databases
etc for a virtual machine? Something other than assembler has to hold this
thing together. I guess we could see the native OS as a collection of
"web services" (but boy, that adds a lot of layers) and have a mechanism for
writing "native web services". 



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