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damian2000

Microsoft seriously needs to get some new acronyms ... WinRT (Windows Runtime) is the name of the new SDK that all new Windows 8 (Metro apps) use. Whereas Windows RT is the name of the Windows 8 OS running on ARM.

WinRT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime WindowsRT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT

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It's similar to NT(New Technology). It's just as meaningless and twice as confusing.

Why is that entirely unreasonable? WindowsRT only metro apps so it kind of fits, no?

Naming an OS after an SDK seems wrong to me... ;-) sort of like if they called it Windows COM+ or Windows .NET

I take it you don't remember Windows .NET Server 2003? ;P

(The .NET moniker actually got attached to so many things that there was supposedly a serious memo sent internally asking other departments at Microsoft to make the point that .NET wasn't just a buzzword, it was a meaningful brand for a specific product.)

Yeah I vaguely remember that one with some hilarity. ;-) I posted a blog post about the topic recently actually ... "Why was .NET called .NET?" ... http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/05/why-was-net-called-net.htm...

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