It took Dan Cazzulino to bring to my attention Microsoft's latest strategy of naming new technologies so they sound like professional wrestling series...
Indigo and Avalon are now but faint memories - long live WCF/WPF!
[Via Don Box's Spoutlet]
Now, I've said before that Indigo and Avalon sounded more like My Little Ponies, but I'd much rather stick to something memorable like that than deal with a maze of 'foundation' TLAs. You can bet we'll see MSXML rebranded as the Windows XML Foundation, ADO.NET as the Windows Data Foundation, and so on.
Microsoft goes through cycles with its acronyms. There was a time when...