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Microsoft Drops .NET Name For Next Windows Server

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Full of Holes... by akiy · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Full of Holes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      defition

      Yes, that's right. A net is where you put "de fish in".

    2. Re:Full of Holes... by msheppard · · Score: 3, Funny

      new name = Sieve Server 2003

      M@

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    3. Re:Full of Holes... by rbolkey · · 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 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, yes, but a DOT net has very small ones.

    5. Re:Full of Holes... by skinfitz · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, yes, but a DOT net has very small ones.

      Is that NetBIAS?

  2. is it time? by smack_attack · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  3. Re:Hmmm by filth+grinder · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    oh wait...

  4. Dot Net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bill: Nobody wants dotnet!
    MS Marketing : Let's rename it and fool the bastards
    Ballmer: * grin *

  5. from what I understand by greechneb · · 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
    </sarcasm>

  6. Re:Confusion? by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  7. Re:No no no.... by kliment · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah, they can't do that, they'd be infringing on EA Sports' patented game naming scheme

  8. haha by autopr0n · · 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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  9. Thank GOD! by divide+overflow · · 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...."

  10. heh by autopr0n · · 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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  11. Re:Much misunderstanding about .NET by Herkum01 · · 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!

  12. This really sucks by slickwillie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I have to stop saying "Just say .NYET!".