What are the shortcomings of MS.NET platform?

The foremost short coming of .NET platform is that it is still the propriety of
Microsoft. It is more coupled with the Microsoft Windows operating system and is
implemented only on Microsoft Windows successfully.

MS.NET desktop applications can run only on Microsoft Windows, Web based
applications and web services can only be deployed on Microsoft Internet
Information Server (IIS). Since, dot net framework contains a lot of utilities,
components, and framework class libraries, the size of downloadable framework is
quite large (25MB compared to 5MB size of JVM).

Not all types of applications can be written in .NET managed applications, for
example, you can�t write CLR or Operating System in your managed applications.

The managed .Net applications are somewhat slower to start and run than the
traditional Win32 applications. The compiled code of .Net managed applications is
easier to de-compile back to the source code.