Microsoft Drops .NET Name For Next Windows Server 490
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
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)
oh wait...
so.... (Score:3, Funny)
Or, IN SOVIET RUSSIA (sorry), .NYET ?
Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, that's right. A net is where you put "de fish in".
Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)
M@
Changed name too (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)
.NET Server Benchmark (Score:2, Funny)
Dot Net (Score:4, Funny)
MS Marketing : Let's rename it and fool the bastards
Ballmer: * grin *
heh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is hardly news... (Score:1, Funny)
I guess my only question is, what the fuck qualifies as news to you?
In other News (Score:2, Funny)
from what I understand (Score:3, Funny)
That's all I got from the commercial
</sarcasm>
Re:Confusion? (Score:5, Funny)
1. Developers
2. Developers
3. Developers
4. Developers
At least, that's what that Ballmer guy said.
Re:No no no.... (Score:3, Funny)
haha (Score:5, Funny)
Analysts are being quoted as saying that slapping
The entirety of your comment:
They are changing the name because people are getting confused about what
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)
I'm *SO* happy Microsoft is dropping the
"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)
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
Re:Full of Holes... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Much misunderstanding about .NET (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!
Re:Good move by Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
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)
Cheers
This really sucks (Score:3, Funny)
Whoa, buzzword overload... (Score:4, Funny)
Reading that gives me a headrush. I gotta lie down for a minute.
Re:Full of Holes... (Score:3, Funny)
Is that NetBIAS?
It doesn't make any sense... (Score:2, Funny)
I half thought the MS marketeers were watching the smurfs and instead of smurf the used the word
New Smurf technology enabled my Smurf application with expanded communication using the Smurf framework on the Smurf advanced server.