some more funny hints.
CLR was called COR or 'Component Object Runtime', as the next version of COM.
.NET was called NGWS or 'Next Generation Windows Services'.
https://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2000/jun00/forumumbrellapr.mspx
.NET has these goals:
Improved User Experience Puts People in Control
Ease of Use/Simplicity
Internet Standards
Business Integration and Opportunity
.NET has such a component
.NET User Experience. A new set of technologies for building next-generation user experiences, including the new Universal Canvas XML-based compound information architecture, natural user interface, ......
and .NET Passport has a role in the picture,
So Windows 8 looks like a 'reimplementation' of all these vision of NGWS, 10 years after, right ?
Gates RULEZ!
