WinFX has been renamed .NET 3.0

WinFX was the new name for the new, Vista-related programming interfaces, but to many developers this name was confusing and vague. I found that S. Somasegar (Corporate Vice President, Developer Division) had announced a new name for WinFX on his blog: .NET 3.0.

I warmly welcome this new name. It is clear, informs developers that it is a new version of something that we already have (.NET) and helps Microsoft to market WinFX APIs better. The bad news is that I happened to like the word WinFX. :-)