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?

>> Without piracy, how the fuck will that be popular besides gay corporations and OEMs who are forced by M$?

That's probably your most important point, because it touches on the iceberg of a much larger point.

.NET is more than just an inferior imitation of Sun's work. It's MS's plan to move from a product-based business model to a service-based model. As a direct result of open sauce software, this is the way the industry is moving, and MS doesn't intend to be left behind the way they almost did with the internet.

Problem is MS's success is largely based on the principle of proprietory lock-in. Make your customers so dependent on you that switching vendor would be unthinkable. With .NET they can do this to the software companies as well. When you write programs for the .NET framework, MS essentially owns a large part of your program.

That's dangerous as hell and that is why I will never code in C#.