Mike Ricciuti at CNET.com Tech News: "If the public has been unclear on [.Net], that may be precisely what Microsoft had planned all along. Although it has a 25-year history of trumpeting grandiose initiatives, sometimes with dubious intentions and chameleon-like business plans, .Net may appear uniquely enigmatic... 'This whole thing is driven by the fact that Microsoft has hundreds of millions of Windows users out there, but Microsoft doesn't have a direct monthly billing relationship with those users,' said Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft."