They say it is useless. They say they already can have two programs talk with sokets. They say all sort of things you can expect from somenone not seing the picture. Pages were static. Java won it's place here for animations and special effects.
Systems are mostly non internet enabled.
But MS will. And we'll use .NET because it's there. VC7 is better than VC6. VB.NET and ASP.NET are cool to play with. They'll use them for that reason, not for technical resons.