Paul Andrews: “What happened to .NET? Microsoft’s flagship strategy for ‘any time, anywhere computing from any device’ has sunk like a stone. By now we were supposed to be seeing initial .NET applications, but the new rallying cry seems to be for Palladium, a security initiative that has met with the same skepticism and resistance from the developer community that .NET inspired. At its worst, Palladium looks to be a sop to Hollywood and its efforts to control digital content.” [Scripting News]