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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by paranoidrobot on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:21PM (#41374745)
The ".NET" label was applied to a bunch of things at Microsoft. It was also an early name given to their social networking / IM things.

But for the last 20-ish years it's really only been applied to things related to the .NET Framework.

So, yes - Visual Basic.NET is a language - it's the language that replaced Visual Basic 6. It compiles to the Intermediate Language (IL) that the Common Language Runtime (CLR) executes. There are other languages that compile to IL, too like C#, F#.

The .NET Framework is really a bunch of libraries and tools that are packaged together.

The .NET Standard is a standard that allows you to build a library to a known set of supported libraries and IL / CLR features.

So, yes, depending on which specific part you're referring to - it's all of those.

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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by pjc50 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:26AM (#41377664)
This was probably copying Sun's "we put the dot in .COM" advertising. Yes, this is stupid.
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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by hermitdev on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:43PM (#41384139)
Microsoft needs to stop letting marketing decide product names. Just look at Xbox: Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.
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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by Maken on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @07:34PM (#41385566)
The "Xbox Series X" is such a nonsensical name that only a marketing department could come with it. And this entire line of names exists solely because someone thought that nobody would buy a "Xbox 2" instead of a "PlayStation 3".
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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by tracker1 on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:40PM (#41392688)
Because X's mean moar marketing power... Like the Extreme X870E X motherboard... There's multiple X's and Extremes and the X's mean extreme... so it's moar extreme!!!
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