為什麼微軟將其軟體開發平台起名為.NET？

12-27

我猜是當年受到了「互聯網時代」的影響，不知道對不對。
為什麼前面要加一個"."呢，為什麼"NET"會是三個大寫字母呢？是為了看起來逼格更高么？

在1998年的時候，微軟的雄心壯志就是要消滅Windows，創造一個跑在IE6.0裡面的雲操作系統（叫.net）。由於當時人類的科學技術還比較落後（其實現在也是），這個事情肯定是搞不出來的。於是最後所有在產品狗的角度里失敗的技術，剩下的有用的部分，就變成了.net framework。

於是在接下來的幾十年裡面，有很多不同的公司前仆後繼，想要完成微軟的這一偉大構想，當然統統都失敗了。個人認為，在我國建國跟美國現在的歷史一樣長的時候，雲操作系統應該就可以真正的派上用場了。

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terminology - Why was .NET called .NET?
http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/05/why-was-net-called-net.html

This is a bit of mystery, but the below answers are the best I"ve come across so far...

1) .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 at the time, whose theme was "The network is the computer". The term "Dot Com" was synonymous with the Internet at the 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
initially named so many products with the ".NET" nomenclature like ".NET
My Services" and ".NET Enterprise Servers", where the latter had
nothing to do with the Internet. It caused so much confusion. Only later
did Microsoft correct itself by limiting the .NET name to technologies
related to the managed software framework.
- Stanley Siu
2) 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.
- George V. Reilly
3) 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".
- John Saunders

4) I was Summer intern at Microsoft in 2001 and back then the
interns went to Bill Gates"s house for a bbq near the end of the Summer.
One of the interns asked "what other names did you think of before
coming up with .NET?"

To the best of my memory, Bill"s answer was something like:
"I didn"t actually like the name .NET. It makes people wonder if we
are finally just starting to learn about the Internet. Sadly, the other
proposed name was even worse. Our mission statement at the time was
"work Anywhere, Anytime, on Any device," so the proposal was AAAWare."
- leelinUser John Saunders

抖個機靈。
因為那時候互聯網剛開始流行，各個企業都加個.com後綴以標明自己趕上了互聯網大潮。
微軟開發CLR這套東西是用來在其COM技術上進一步演進出來的一套新玩意兒，com不能用了，於是微軟起名部一拍腦袋，.com不能用那就是.net了，於是起名.net

那個時候微軟覺得 Web Services (基於 SOAP 的) 特別重要, 然而現在大家都用 JSON 了..
那個時候微軟覺得大家不會再關注 HTML 了, 想用 Web Forms 隱藏掉它, 結果後來 Ajax 流行起來了..
一句話, 微軟很可惜地在 JavaScript 的興起中沒佔到便宜..