Microsoft .NET ürünlerinin sonuna .NET ekini ekler. Visual Studio .NET ile beraber Visual Studio.NET oldu. Whidbey kod isimli yeni sürümle tekrar Visual Studio olacak. Visual Basic de aynı şekilde fakat ASP.NET, ADO.NET, .NET Framework falen mevcut isimlerinde.

http://weblogs.asp.net/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/03/16/90506.aspx

Microsoft'dan Robert Green weblogun şöyle açıklıyor.

"Does this mean .NET is dead? Of course not. We tweak names all the time. Remember when it was called Word for Windows? That distinguished it from the Word for DOS version. Eventually Word for DOS was no more and we just started calling it Word. No need to call it Office XP for Windows. Office XP only ran on Windows."

Hangimiz Word for Windows demek isteriz ki?

Kaynak: http://weblogs.asp.net/rgreen_msft/archive/2004/03/16/90506.aspx