Microsoft Drops .NET Name For Next Windows Server

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Microsoft Drops .NET Name For Next Windows Server

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 10, 2003 @09:47AM from the muddled-nomenclature dept.

metamatic writes "C|net is reporting that Microsoft is dropping the name "Windows .NET Server" and going back to "Windows Server 200x" (where x is currently expected to be 3). Other products with .NET in the name are also being evaluated for renaming. Analysts are being quoted as saying that slapping .NET on so many Microsoft products has confused people as to what .NET actually means. Or could it be that customers know what it means, but nobody wants to buy it?" Obiwan Kenobi points out a similar article at ENT News

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Full of Holes... by akiy · 2003-01-10 09:49 · Score: 5, Funny

A net, by defition, is full of holes...

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1. Re:Full of Holes... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-10 09:54 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  defition
  
  Yes, that's right. A net is where you put "de fish in".
2. Re:Full of Holes... by msheppard · 2003-01-10 09:54 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  new name = Sieve Server 2003
  
  M@
  
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3. Re:Full of Holes... by rbolkey · 2003-01-10 09:57 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  No, that's not the net they are talking about. The net they're talking about is short for network, which is something fishermen do with nets.
4. Re:Full of Holes... by Trick · 2003-01-10 11:50 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Well, yes, but a DOT net has very small ones.
5. Re:Full of Holes... by skinfitz · 2003-01-10 16:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Well, yes, but a DOT net has very small ones.
  
  Is that NetBIAS?
is it time? by smack_attack · 2003-01-10 09:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Is it time to start callng it Microsoft bob.NET?

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Re:Hmmm by filth+grinder · 2003-01-10 09:52 · Score: 3, Funny

When does Micro$oft plan to drop the $ from their name?

oh wait...
Dot Net by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-10 09:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Bill: Nobody wants dotnet!
MS Marketing : Let's rename it and fool the bastards
Ballmer: * grin *
heh by cetan · 2003-01-10 10:06 · Score: 2, Funny

I bet a lot of domain name speculators/squatters are feeling good about their .NET-related purchases now...

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Re:This is hardly news... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-10 10:12 · Score: 1, Funny

Let's see..you're reading a news site. The story was posted on the front page of said news site. It's a recent announcement, from -another- news site.

I guess my only question is, what the fuck qualifies as news to you?
In other News by certsoft · 2003-01-10 10:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Ximian has announced that in response they will change the name of the "mono" project to "syphilis"
from what I understand by greechneb · 2003-01-10 10:28 · Score: 3, Funny

.net means that when some clutz driving a forklift makes a mistake, the price of wine in china goes up?

That's all I got from the commercial
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Re:Confusion? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-10 10:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Is this all true? I was under the impression that .NET was a different four things:

1. Developers

2. Developers

3. Developers

4. Developers

At least, that's what that Ballmer guy said.
Re:No no no.... by kliment · 2003-01-10 10:46 · Score: 3, Funny

Nah, they can't do that, they'd be infringing on EA Sports' patented game naming scheme
haha by autopr0n · 2003-01-10 10:57 · Score: 5, Funny

From the slashdot blurb:

Analysts are being quoted as saying that slapping .NET on so many Microsoft products has confused people as to what .NET actually means.

The entirety of your comment:

They are changing the name because people are getting confused about what .NET really is. It was a bad idea for Microsoft to try to add ".NET" to every single product they sell.

And you got modded +3 Insightful! Not +5 yet, but just wait. All you did was change the wording around, and not even that much!

what happened to the days would at least try to add tons of superfluous fluff around their restatements of the article when trying to karma whore.

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Thank GOD! by divide+overflow · 2003-01-10 11:01 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm *SO* happy Microsoft is dropping the .NET from the server name. Every time a client would ask me what .NET was I would think:

"Well, let's see...I can confuse him, anger him, or put him to sleep. Maybe I should fake a heart attack right now...."
heh by autopr0n · 2003-01-10 11:01 · Score: 5, Funny

What's funny is that Java's networking API is called java.net. You know, like Java.io, java.util, java.awt.image, etc.

I've coded in java for years, and done lots of networking stuff in it, using java.net. But even then, during the height of the .net marketing push I was looking through the API for the first time in a while and saw "java.net" and it immediately made me think of .net, and made me wonder why there was .net support in J2SE. Then I came to my senses :P

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Re:Much misunderstanding about .NET by Herkum01 · 2003-01-10 11:53 · Score: 4, Funny

NET is a major attempt to shed legacy Windows

HEY that is Linux's strategy! They cannot come with ANYTHING on their own anymore!
Re:The Real Del by Bird+Watcher · 2003-01-10 14:38 · Score: 2, Funny

I just re-read my post and I sound incredibly arrogant. Sorry! But I guess that's not unusual on slasdot. My POV is based partly on good info, not just random opinion.

Cheers
This really sucks by slickwillie · 2003-01-10 14:54 · Score: 3, Funny

Now I have to stop saying "Just say .NYET!".
It doesn't make any sense... by MegaHamsterX · 2003-01-10 17:33 · Score: 2, Funny

Microsoft marketing .NET is like ford running dumptruck commercials during the superbowl. It's a commercial product, if I need a compiler I know where to get it, if I need a tool I know where to go (I'll start in Redmond first).

.NET has bombarded me from every direction, I usually keep up with MS stuff despite my dislike for them, I gave up on this, the term seems to mean everything Microsoft, but it then seems to mean specific things in certain instances. It's f&cking confusing.

I half thought the MS marketeers were watching the smurfs and instead of smurf the used the word .NET

New Smurf technology enabled my Smurf application with expanded communication using the Smurf framework on the Smurf advanced server.