Stale .NET-Related Names
Microsoft has already changed the names of some .NET-related technologies. To help anyone who may be confused, I have summarized all of the already-obsolete .NET-related technology names that I know of in this section.
NGWS
Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS) was Microsoft's internal name for the .NET technologies before the marketing people got a hold of it and renamed it to .NET. Microsoft claims that it worked secretly on its .NET strategy for three and a half years before its introduction in the summer of 2000. It was probably known internally as NGWS for most of that time. Several Microsoft insiders wrote books about this technology prior to its introduction (and renaming to .NET), so the term NGWS did leak into ...
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