Petition to Reverse WinFX .NET 3.0 Naming

Microsoft recently announced .NET 3.0 which is basically the .NET 2.0 Framework with the WinFX library. This has caused a lot of confusion in the software developer community and is in my opinion a stupid move by Microsoft. Turns out I'm not alone in thinking this was a bad move. A petition has been started to reverse the WinFX .NET naming.

posted by Kirby | 24-Aug-2006 8:14 AM | comments (2)

Why do they put the "." on a version if they are not going to use it? I would argue that .NET 2.0 really should be .NET 1.2

posted by David Frost | August 24 05:47 AM

I can understand the move from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0, but .NET 2.0 to 3.0 is plain wrong. If they wanted to rename WinFX, calling it .NET 2.5 would be better than .NET 3.0. So when the next major release of the .NET Framework is released will it be called .NET 3.5? As you said, what's the point in using the "." if Microsoft isn't going to use it.

posted by Kirby Turner | August 24 06:03 AM

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