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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

14 of 406 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Big Fucking Whoop by SnowDeath · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, that they don't. n00b, you're going to hell.

  2. Re:Full of Holes... by jdreed1024 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What humorless wanker modded the parent as "Troll"? It's +1 Funny. Wish I had mod points...

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  3. Instead it'll be Windows.museum by ink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No? Yes? Hopefully?

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  4. In Soviet Russia... by I'm+not+a+script,+da · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...NET drops you!

  5. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Tofino · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, .NET names YOU!

    1. Re:in soviet russia by nelsonal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      The ISR jokes were as far as I know originated by a Russian comidian named Yakov Smirnoff, who used them during his peak popularity in the 1980s. He is now in Branson MO. His web page appears to be down, so here is a basic bio page on him.
      More recently, I think it was on an episode of "The Family Guy" that featured a Russian made car that spouted off ISR one liners. I am not sure of the exact show, but I asked the question earlier and got those two respones.

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  6. in soviet russia by asscroft · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, All You Belong to BASE!!! does anyone know when this ISR stuff started? Is there a flash video yet????!!!!

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  7. 2k3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    two-thousand-three - 4 syllables
    two-thousand - 3 syllables
    2k - 2 syllables
    XP - 2 syllables
    2k3 - 3 syllables

  8. Re:Confusion? by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I liked Perl for CGI, but couldnt use it to make a GUI app very easily. VB was queer, but worked for GUI apps, but not very strong for complicated apps. .NET framework includes a bunch of objects for dealing with everything from I/O to Databases to XML and Webservices.

    It sounds like you want Python. No, really. It covers everything you mentioned with style, and with this compiler extension it's fast too.

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  9. Re:This is hardly news... by Stonent1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    From the article: Analysts are being quoted as saying that slapping .NET on so many Microsoft products has confused people as to what .NET actually means. 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. Where's +5 Insightfull coming from?

    I said the same exact thing and if my mod points hadn't just run out 2 hours ago, I would get this message out of troll status.

  10. PLEASE, THE IN SOVIET RUSSIA JOKES ARE ... by JuddN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... getting a bit monotonous now. It was funny for a while, but now its just tragic. Every single topic that comes up has one now. How long must this go on ?

    1. Re:PLEASE, THE IN SOVIET RUSSIA JOKES ARE ... by djp928 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      At least as long as the "ALL YOUR BASE" jokes did, dude.

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    2. Re:PLEASE, THE IN SOVIET RUSSIA JOKES ARE ... by JuddN · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      At least as long as the "ALL YOUR BASE" jokes did, dude.

      Great, so we can all look forward to a few more years of predictable ISR jokes. Maybe Someone will set up an ISR bot to generate them automatically ...

    3. Re:PLEASE, THE IN SOVIET RUSSIA JOKES ARE ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Launch, every ISR joke. For great justice!!!!