Question I wish had been asked: Why wasn't .NET Core given a different name to distinguish it more from legacy .NET? Is there a chance that might happen in the

Question I wish had been asked: Why wasn't .NET Core given a different name to distinguish it more from legacy .NET? Is there a chance that might happen in the future? The name was "merely okay" in the late 90s... but then again, the one time Microsoft had an awesome name for a product and didn't change it as part of go-live was Silverlight. Microsoft simply cannot do naming well.