Does Microsoft's recent decision to disappear the ".Net" from the name of its Windows server operating system mean the end is nigh for .Net?

Hardly, as Gartner Group analyst David Smith noted in a research note late last week. "With this name change - and others that will likely follow - Microsoft has set about clearing up some of that confusion,"
Smith said.

Indeed, .Net is alive and well. And headed, it seems, back where it
belongs: Attached to Microsoft's developer tools.

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