Warning: Somewhat techish content ahead
Etymology is happening before our very eyes.

For years, Microsoft’s set of data-access objects for their DNA-framework applications was called ADO – ActiveX Data Objects. Fair enough.
Now, with their newer dotNet framework, everything gets the suffix slapped on. Visua Studio.NET. VisualBasic.NET. ASP.NET and, of course, ADO.NET.
And does it matter than ADO.NET has nothing to do with ActiveX? That is’t part of a technology that REPLACES ActiveX?
No, of course not. Years from now, when kids ask their parents “Mommy, what does the ADO in ADO.NET mean?”, Mommy will have to wriggle in embarssment and say “Umm, it stands for ActiveX, but that doesn’t mean anything, so don’t trouble your pretty little head about it”.

History in the making, folks.