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The .NET Framework Lore So, in the late 1990s Microsoft began working on it’s so called “.NET Strategy.” The idea behind the project was meant to encompass all Microsoft products and add the .NET ending to the already existing product names. Back then the .NET framework was known as the “Next Generation Windows Service,” or NGWS in short. Since the initial .NET strategy failed, the NGWS name was dropped and has now been known as the .NET Framework instead. The first beta version of the .NET Framework was released around the year 2000. The reason for its development was to compete against Sun’s Java which was the sole dominator in the software development industry at the time. The first solid version of the .NET Framework was released around 2002 named .NET 1.0 with its main feature being the Common Language Runtime (CLR) as well as providing support for the object-oriented development of web apps. Fast forward to 2014, at this point, .NET has had a lot of upgrades to its functi...