What Is A “Dot Net” And Should I Install It?
Online home business owners depend on a lot of different software tools to manage both their websites and their office procedures. They would soon become overwhelmed with the work if they did not automate various parts of their workload.
While evaluating new software usually a trial download is offered to test drive it and see exactly how it functions. As part of the download and installation of this software more and more applications are now requiring that the user first install the .NET Framework 2.0. What exactly is this and should you be concerned when asked to install it?
.Net (pronounced dot Net) has been around since 2002. Its not brand new or beta technology. It is software that is developed and distributed by Microsoft. If you were to search their website for .Net, you would find it defined as: software that connects information, people, systems, and devices.
Initially Microsoft began naming all of their software with .Net added to it. This marketing plan did not work as expected so they went a different direction; giving the impression that .Net was dead.
In reality .Net is...