Origin of the name ".NET"

I’m having a hard time discovering it. What is it?

As a side note, I think it is a very boring and nerdy name, and it was already taken. At least C# is musical. :stuck_out_tongue:

I don’t get what you want? As wiki said .net is a shortening for ‘network’, what else do you need?

Where?

I’m not talking about .net. I’m talking about .NET.

Presumably Microsoft came up with it because they wanted to capitalize on the web bandwagon. “Hey Steve, people are into this ‘intarnets’ thing, let’s call this .NET so we sound all interconnected and trendy and stuff.” Or something…

–Eric

If that is true, the name backfired. When I first heard the name, I thought it was a framework for writing networking code

Well, eventually they got bored with it, and for a while everything was “Live” this and “Live” that, but they got recently got bored with that too, so who knows what their next branding campaign will be.

–Eric

The next step will be calling everything ‘7’.

The next step after that one will finally be inspired by Apple: Giving it cool animal names. But since big cats are already taken, and Ballmer doesn’t like the dangerous and deadly smell of these big cats, they’ll go for something cuddly, something that tells you right away ‘We are the man’s best friend’: Windows Poodle (now even more bloated and groomed), Visual Studio Yorkshire Terrier (now as unnerving as a real Yorkshire Terrier), Windows Mobile Lassie (now all new with it’s cool new feature that makes your mobile phone bark for help if it’s master is in danger), Office Dalmatian (for your daily work with black on white stuff) and of course Internet Explorer Husky (the special browser to explore the web without getting tired - and it has cute blue eyes!).

Umm no, it’s windows 7 because it’s seventh windows. Not all MS’s softwares are that far. Some are further or less, not 7.

::whoosh::

–Eric

Yeah they somehow ended up at like, 360 for one of their products…

Cough

The Xbox 347 was massively underrated if you ask me; I don’t know why some people are so stuck on the 360.

–Eric

I always loved the BS explanation that was given for the name of the 360:

Rubbish. It was so named, because the Playstation was going to have “3” in its name, the next year, and Microsoft didn’t want to seem behind the curve, to ignorant people.

It was, much like the rest of my posting, a joke… :roll:

Never look into the reasons for MS’s product names. Completely aside from their politics, actual products or anything else, they are probably hands down the worst company at naming things.

I think .net came about just because it was at the peak of the .COM era and they wanted something to ride the 'net wave.

Nowhere near as bad as their “add ‘Live’ to the end of every product we make” meme from a year or two ago, though.

Just as retarded as apples iSux fad

I attended the Microsoft conference (PDC) way back in 2000, when they announced the name. Before then it had been referred to as NGWS (Next Generation Windows Services). I even have some whitepapers from that event that are labeled NGWS because they were printed before marketing came up with the .NET name.

I think it would have been better to stay with the NGWS name, it would have been less confusing. People (non-techie types) still get confused about what .Net is, people tend to think it has something to do with networking or the internet.

While this may be true, I don’t think I’ve ever had occasion to explain to a non-techie type what .NET is, and I can’t really imagine a case where I would need to.

Non-techie Person: “So what do you do?”
Me: “Computer programming.”
Non-techie Person: “Oh, really? Can you fix my computer? It’s slow.”

:stuck_out_tongue:

I really think this is the true reason …

Which is why they gave the name to Windows 6.1. Mmhmm. :slight_smile:

It’s Windows “7” because they wanted it to sound further removed from Vista than “Vista-with-a-Dock”.

LOL, ain’t that the truth! :smile: