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No, Microsoft has not been recommending .local, as this document, circa Windows Server 2000, states:

> Identify your organization's DNS owner and determine what registered DNS names you have available on the network that will host Active Directory.

> If you do not have a registered domain name, you should register a name with an Internet DNS registration authority.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727085.aspx

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Actually they've said different things about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local#Microsoft_recommendation...

The approved standard RFC is new but the proposal RFC and the practice of using .local for mDNS, like the convention of using .local for AD, goes back more than a decade. I agree that the whole thing is silly and pointless but it's not clear who "barged in" on whom.

.local doesn't work in Windows either as of Windows 8.