Is Apple going to do a great .Net client? Microsoft.net could be Apple's death sentence, or its salvation. It's entirely up to the client software how it deals with an XML message from a Web service, so it's Apple's responsibility whether a Mac deals with it in the dumbest possible way -- like a mobile phone, for example -- or with the richness that Microsoft is busy plumbing into Windows. From this report it doesn't look too promising at the moment, but there's still a long way to go.