On: Why was .NET called .NET?

[grandpoobah]

They were going to call it WinFX if I recall correctly

[damian2000 → grandpoobah]

Yeah I remember WinFX as well, but I think that was around 2005 - it was the codename for the set of .NET 3.0 technologies later known as WPF, WCF and WF ... there's something here about it - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ianm/archive/2006/04/19/578851.aspx