Scott M. <s-***@nospam.nospam> wrote:
Microsoft will be dropping the ".NET" name in new versions.
I'll believe it when I see it.
The original name for Windows Server 2003 was Windows 2003 .NET Server.
Yes, but that was just a case of them narrowing the focus. For a while,
MS went .NET-crazy, calling just about everything .NET to the extent
that no-one knew what they were talking about. These days, developers
*do* know what it means for something to be "written in .NET" or
similar.
Now that MS has redressed the focus issue, I don't think it would make
sense for them to drop the name. I think it was a bad idea in the first
place as names go - it's a pain to search for, and it looks silly at
the start of a sentence - but now it's been established, changing it
entirely would be a mistake.
(I know about the "WinFX" name for the API for Longhorn - I doubt that
that means that the name .NET is disappearing though.)
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