为什么.NET 被称为.NET？
我一直想知道为什么微软为这样一个伟大的平台选择了一个如此奇怪的、对搜索引擎不友好的名字。 难道他们就不能想出更好的办法吗？
显然代号是 NGWS：
微软开始开发 20 世纪 90 年代末的 .NET Framework 最初的名字是 Next 新一代 Windows 服务 (NGWS)。 [维基百科]
有谁知道他们为什么选择命名.NET？
I always wondered why Microsoft chose such a strange, search-engine-unfriendly name for such a great platform. Couldn't they have come up with something better?
Apparently the codename was NGWS:
Microsoft started development on the
.NET Framework in the late 1990s
originally under the name of Next
Generation Windows Services (NGWS). [Wikipedia]
Does anyone know why they chose the name .NET?
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.NET使微软的营销人员能够强调其技术的“网络”方面，也是对Sun Microsystems在20世纪90年代末以“网络就是计算机”为主题的营销闪电战的反应。 当时，“Dot-Com”一词是互联网的同义词，而“Dot-NET”则是该术语的变体。
我不认为这是一个坏名字，问题是微软用“.Net”命名法命名了很多产品，例如.NET My Services和Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers，而后者与互联网无关。 这引起了很多混乱。 直到后来，微软才通过将 .NET 名称限制为与托管运行时框架相关的技术来纠正问题。
.NET enabled Microsoft's marketing people to emphasise the "Network"-ing aspect of its technologies, and was also a reaction to the marketing blitz by Sun Microsystems in the late 1990s whose theme was "The network is the computer". The term "Dot-Com" was synonymous with the Internet that time, and "Dot-NET" was a play on that term.
I don't think it is a bad name at all, the problem was that Microsoft named so many products with the ".Net" nomenclature like .NET My Services and Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers where the latter had nothing to do with the Internet. It caused so much confusion. Only later did Microsoft correct things by limiting the .NET name to technologies related to the Managed Runtime Framework.
我的猜测是互联网
在 20 世纪 90 年代中后期，微软将互联网视为未来，但也觉得他们在这方面有点晚了。 因此，Explorer 被迫嵌入操作系统中（他们现在正在后悔）。 从 Windows 中删除 Java 等竞争对手，并使用 .NET 等非常夸张的名称来表明现在有一家网络友好的公司......
interNET would be my guess
In the mid\late 90's Microsoft saw the internet as the Future and also felt they where a little late to the game. Thus Explorer being forced on people by being embedded in the OS(Which they are regretting now). Removing competitors such as Java from Windows AND a really over the top name like .NET to indicate there are now a web friendly company....
当时我是微软的一名开发人员，我不知道 .NET 这个名字是从谁的屁股里扯出来的。 与我交谈过的任何人都认为这是一个糟糕的名字，原因已经列举了。 至少它是可以发音的，不像 NGWS。
I was a dev at Microsoft at the time, and I have no idea whose ass the name .NET was pulled from. Anyone I talked to thought it was a lousy name for all the reasons already enumerated. At least it's pronounceable, unlike NGWS.
.NET 的早期营销主旨是 Web 服务。 .NET 应该让编写和使用 Web 服务变得更加容易。 特别是，它应该使调用 Microsoft 将提供的 Web 服务变得更容易，然后每个人都会使用：“.NET My Services”。
当然，这个想法很快就崩溃了，但这个名字仍然存在。 它至少比“COM++”或“ActiveXX”好。
The early marketing thrust of .NET was web services. .NET was supposed to make it easy both to write and consume web services. In particular, it was supposed to make it easier to call the web services that Microsoft was going to provide, and that everyone would then use: the ".NET My Services".
Of course, that fell apart very quickly, but the name remained. It was at least better than "COM++" or "ActiveXX".