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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 Windo

by damian2000 14y ago

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

cargo8 14y ago
Why is that entirely unreasonable? WindowsRT only metro apps so it kind of fits, no?
- damian2000 14y ago
  Naming an OS after an SDK seems wrong to me... ;-) sort of like if they called it Windows COM+ or Windows .NET
  - saurik 14y ago
    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.)
    - damian2000 14y ago
      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.html http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/05/why-was-net-called-net.htm...
gagege 14y ago
It's similar to NT(New Technology). It's just as meaningless and twice as confusing.