The .NET solution

In anticipation of this future, Microsoft has developed the .NET Framework and the tools
necessary to build in this new environment. Microsoft realized that it had many languages and
tools that basically did the same thing. Admittedly, some languages and tools did certain
things better than others, but all of them worked towards the same goal, and there was plenty
of overlap.

Microsoft has taken the best of all these different worlds and has merged them into a single
environment,

"A Unified model"

This new unified model will allow you, as a developer, to use one development environment
and platform to build every application type that you need.