Microsoft Drops .NET Name For Next Windows Server

Microsoft Drops .NET Name For Next Windows Server 490

Posted by timothy on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:47PM 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... (Score:5, Funny)

by akiy ( 56302 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:49PM (#5058696) Homepage

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

is it time? (Score:3, Funny)

by smack_attack ( 171144 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:49PM (#5058705) Homepage

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

So... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:51PM (#5058736)

Once again .NET is .NOT.

Ahem (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:52PM (#5058742)

In Soviet Russia, we say .NYET to Microsoft!

Re:Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)

by filth grinder ( 577043 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:52PM (#5058745)

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

oh wait...

so.... (Score:3, Funny)

by Britissippi ( 565742 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:54PM (#5058760) Journal

So now its .NOT ?
Or, IN SOVIET RUSSIA (sorry), .NYET ?

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:54PM (#5058761)

defition

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

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)

by msheppard ( 150231 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:54PM (#5058764) Homepage Journal

new name = Sieve Server 2003

M@

Changed name too (Score:2, Funny)

by ad0gg ( 594412 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:54PM (#5058773)

MSN Direct Active XP+ 2004 Server

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)

by rbolkey ( 74093 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:57PM (#5058802)

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.

.NET Server Benchmark (Score:2, Funny)

by DeComposer ( 551766 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:58PM (#5058812) Journal

Does this mean we can now post .NET benchmark results without Microsoft's written consent?

Dot Net (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @05:59PM (#5058821)

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

heh (Score:2, Funny)

by cetan ( 61150 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @06:06PM (#5058895) Journal

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

Re:This is hardly news... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @06:12PM (#5058943)

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 (Score:2, Funny)

by certsoft ( 442059 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @06:22PM (#5059021) Homepage

Ximian has announced that in response they will change the name of the "mono" project to "syphilis"

from what I understand (Score:3, Funny)

by greechneb ( 574646 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @06:28PM (#5059055) Journal

<sarcasm> .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>

Re:Confusion? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @06:31PM (#5059077)

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.... (Score:3, Funny)

by kliment ( 627259 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @06:46PM (#5059175)

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

haha (Score:5, Funny)

by autopr0n ( 534291 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @06:57PM (#5059257) Homepage Journal

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.

Thank GOD! (Score:3, Funny)

by divide overflow ( 599608 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @07:01PM (#5059297)

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 (Score:5, Funny)

by autopr0n ( 534291 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @07:01PM (#5059298) Homepage Journal

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

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:4, Funny)

by Trick ( 3648 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @07:50PM (#5059588)

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

Re:Much misunderstanding about .NET (Score:4, Funny)

by Herkum01 ( 592704 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @07:53PM (#5059606)

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:Good move by Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)

by rseuhs ( 322520 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @09:50PM (#5060240)

I would be highly doubtful that this means that Microsoft is somehow 'backing off' .NET
I'm not so sure, propably Bill Gates told Steve Ballmer: "I will no longer support .NET until you tell me what it is".

Re:The Real Del (Score:2, Funny)

by Bird Watcher ( 640317 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @10:38PM (#5060417)

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 (Score:3, Funny)

by slickwillie ( 34689 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @10:54PM (#5060476)

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

Whoa, buzzword overload... (Score:4, Funny)

by ConceptJunkie ( 24823 ) writes: on Friday January 10, 2003 @11:02PM (#5060506) Homepage Journal

intra-extranet synergistic B2B enterprise solutions

Reading that gives me a headrush. I gotta lie down for a minute.

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)

by skinfitz ( 564041 ) writes: on Saturday January 11, 2003 @12:12AM (#5060764) Journal

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

Is that NetBIAS?

It doesn't make any sense... (Score:2, Funny)

by MegaHamsterX ( 635632 ) writes: on Saturday January 11, 2003 @01:33AM (#5060987)

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.

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Full of Holes... (Score:5, Funny)

is it time? (Score:3, Funny)

So... (Score:1, Funny)

Ahem (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)

so.... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)

Changed name too (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)

.NET Server Benchmark (Score:2, Funny)

Dot Net (Score:4, Funny)

heh (Score:2, Funny)

Re:This is hardly news... (Score:1, Funny)

In other News (Score:2, Funny)

from what I understand (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Confusion? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:No no no.... (Score:3, Funny)

haha (Score:5, Funny)

Thank GOD! (Score:3, Funny)

heh (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Much misunderstanding about .NET (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Good move by Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)

Re:The Real Del (Score:2, Funny)

This really sucks (Score:3, Funny)

Whoa, buzzword overload... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)

It doesn't make any sense... (Score:2, Funny)

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