What does the "ms" in "mscorlib" stand for - hint: it's not "Microsoft".
There's an intriguing post on .NET 247 saying that the “ms” in “mscorlib” doesn't stand for Microsoft anymore:
out of the book 'Applied Microsoft .NET Framework
Programming':
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When
Microsoft first started working on the .NET Framework,
MSCorLib.dll was
an acronym for Microsoft Common Object
Runtime Library. Once ECMA started to
standardize the
CLR and parts of the FCL, MSCorLib.dll officially became
the
acronym for Multilanguage Standard Common Object
Runtime Library.