If you are not deeply immersed in the computer industry you may not have heard, but over the last five years Microsoft has completely altered the strategic direction of its technology.
10-15 years of investment that had been put into the development of their standard for component interaction (COM - standing for Component Object Model) has been largely abandonned in favour of a whole new set of technologies and strategies which are much more oriented towards supporting internetworked businesses.
This new set of technologies and strategies has been called .NET ... which is pronounced "dot net".
At Bindon.net we have been at the forefront of adopting this new technology and have used it in many client projects.