badbadmonkey - 4:14 am on Oct 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

I ask once again... what is the benefit of .NET?

I think the main in-browser benefit is ClickOnce, which is a very nice Windows technology if you're of the mind to be deploying applications across the web but dislike Java... and something you may well find useful in a corporate environment or similar. Having said that, I can't get it to work in Firefox.