What the Hell can .Net do exactly?

What's an example of a possible application that can be made with .Net?

What's a current example of an application using .Net?

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Microsoft will be sure to bundle the framework with future OS releases
Yeah, that crap, they're gonna use it even for the frigging calculator, so we're forced to see .NET everywhere and have the bloat loaded all the time.

Whether anyone other than OEM's upgrade is another story...
Exactly, I lol'd at M$; now that they had made a quite solid, fast, great OS like Windows 2000, they are working hard to make it suck. No chance in hell I'm upgrading to Longcock or anything of the sort.