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Web 2.0, Meet .Net 3.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the higher-number-means-better-code dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention an eWeek article about Microsoft's move to rename WinFX to .Net Framework 3.0. Microsoft has also announced the availability of the beta version of the MSDN Wiki, the company's first step toward allowing customers to contribute to Microsoft's developer documentation. From the article: "It is purely a branding change, company officials said. The gist of the issue is that Microsoft has two successful developer brands in WinFX and .Net, and the company has seen 320,000 downloads of WinFX -- and 700 signed GoLive licenses -- since the December Community Technology Preview, and more than 35 million downloads of the .Net Framework since the November launch. "

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  1. Icredible by reydelamirienda · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, how innovative! I wish the PHP documentation had user contributions too...

  2. Web 3.0 by PhreakinPenguin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd like to propose that the first standard of Web 3.0 be to stop coining stupid phrases for every day things. Web 2.0, Dot Com's, etc.

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    My sig of choice is Marlboro
    1. Re:Web 3.0 by castoridae · · Score: 2, Funny

      But then how can blogging nobodys make a name for themselves?

  3. Active WinFX 3.11 for Workgroups. by MULTICS_$MAN · · Score: 4, Funny

    With dynamic OLE licensing 6.23.0 That's my vote.

  4. Re:Microsoft just seems to be kind of flailing. by xbrownx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe he was talking about upgrading from Java 1.3 to .NET 2.0, I can see how that would cause many problems...

  5. Re:S.O.P. by labreuer · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're a Linux developer you don't change the name, you just create a new distribution!

    *ducks*

  6. Re:Call it whatever. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well if the 'untrained eye' thinks it's all hype and no show then that's good enough for me. Who needs people with experience and expertise when we can evaluate merit by letting ignorant people look at things.