ArsTechnica's A Windows Developer's conversion to OS X: A look at .NET

But OS X didn't stand still. Apple released a series of updates in quick succession, strengthening the platform with new features like Core Audio, Core Image, Core Data, and Quartz Extreme, and providing high-quality applications that exploited these abilities. All this time, XP itself stood still. The core Windows platform didn't change between 2001 and late 2006.

Although XP itself was essentially unchanged, Microsoft was did try to produce a modern, appealing platform for future development. That platform was, of course, .NET, and observant readers will have noticed that I didn't mention it in part one. This was no accident, as the whole .NET story deserved a more thorough examination.

From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X—Part II

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