In Vista, the .NET Brand Lives to Fight Another Day

In Vista, the .NET Brand Lives to Fight Another Day: "The WinFX name is being dropped, and the technologies will now be called .NET Framework 3.0. 'The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn't convey this,' Microsoft corporate vice president S. 'Soma' Somasegar wrote in a recent blog posting. 'We have decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0. [The name] .NET Framework 3.0 aptly identifies the technology for exactly what it is--the next version of our developer framework. The change is in name only and will not affect the technologies being delivered as part of the product.'"