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Yep. Probably the confusing name change threw him off the scent.

What would have been ".NET Core 5" is just ".NET 5", and that's when the bulk of the desktop framework compat came online.

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Yeah. Someone could make a case study out of this for why marketing should not have final say on the names of technologies.

I think marketing was not involved there. I think some manager made the decision after talking to some CTO of customers. Same for the unfortunate MAUI naming. Both cases could have been prevented by a week of proper field research.

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