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monocasa 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Copilot+ PCs

It was very confusing, and for a while there every team inside Microsoft started adding .NET to their name for some internal visibility points regardless of any connection with the common language runtime.

That's how you ended up with names like Windows .NET Server 2003.

schmidtleonard 11 months ago | [–]

Huh, I always wondered about that. So what's the mechanism, was there an executive with a .NET mandate or something?

neonsunset 11 months ago | [–]

These events have little to do with .NET* of today, 21 years later.

*the one that is hosted here: https://github.com/dotnet

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