Why was .NET called .NET?
- by compie
I always wondered why Microsoft chose such a strange, search-engine-unfriendly name for such a great platform. Couldn't they have come up with something better?
Apparently the codename was NGWS:
Microsoft started development on the
.NET Framework in the late 1990s
originally under the name of Next
Generation Windows Services (NGWS). [Wikipedia]
Does anyone know why they chose the name .NET?