Microsoft continues '.NET' naming purge
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft seems to have learned a lesson from decision to remove ".Net" from the Windows Server 2003 name: Don't invite publicity around an acknowledgement that your publicity crew went overboard. As a result, the software giant is continuing its drive to clarify and trim back its .Net naming convention. But rather than doing so with a lot of fanfare, Microsoft is reducing quietly its use of the term. Earlier this month, Microsoft changed the name of MapPoint. The first of Microsoft's XML Web services is now known as plain-old MapPoint, rather than MapPoint.Net.