.NET Is .NOT

Microsoft announced yesterday it is abandoning the ".NET" brand for its Web services product line, re-christening them "Windows Server System." [The Register]. That's a long-overdue admission that servers are best described as "servers," not some amorphous blob of language, runtime or webservices. ".NET" clearly meant a lot of things to a lot of people at Redmond, but very little to the outside world.

 Posted by glenn