Features of C#.NET

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

If I restrict deployment base only on Windows machines, then Java apps with
GUI are less stable, on different machines behaving differently (sometimes
not working at all, nobody knows why), slow and usually ugly.

I counter that with Eclipse, which is very stable, good looking and
fast. See http://www.jgoodies.com/ for information on making Swing work
efficiently and in a nice-looking way.

.NET apps using GUI work always the same way - this is what I need.

I think you'll find plenty of posts where people complain about
WinForms not working the same on Win98 as on Win2000 etc...

And with .NET 2.0 they look quite nice I guess. Not mentiosning
Java-runtime-verison hell (runtime versions cooexistence is far
better solved in .NET).

I agree that versioning is *much* better in .NET, although I've rarely
actually found it to be a problem myself in Java. I think we need to
wait a while to see how well .NET versioning works in real life though
- we'll see when it's been around for another 5 years, by which time
there'll be more libraries depending on other libraries etc (which is
the way things tend to work in Java).