already did. Effective marketing. On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Peter Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Dec 19, 9:34 am, Sharp ArunKumar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > What is the exact meaning of dot in dot net? >> > > The first Press Release on the subject can be found at > http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2000/jun00/forumumbrellapr.mspx > > It doesn't really shed any light on the subject directly, except to > elucidate my first answer. > > The "exact meaning of dot in dot net' is simply . ; it is how you pronounce > Microsoft .NET > > Being all in caps, you'd expect it to be an acronym or something similar, > but I can find no references that aren't post-contrived. The Microsoft .NET > Framework v1.0, which is where it all started off, was known as COM+ 2.0 and > COM Object Runtime (COR) during development. My best guess is that the wags > said "What do we replace COM with?" and the answer was "NET, cause ORG just > won't work for us..." > > But I would be pleased if someone could trump my search-Fu. > > >
