[gapchuboy]

Naming hell again by Microsoft.

Why fabric?

Windows Server AppFabric https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Ff384253(v=Azure.10...

Azure has App fabric and fabric controller.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

Maybe a play on Google's "Material Design" ?

[userbinator]

Maybe because they didn't want to use "framework".

I've mentally added "fabric" to my list of buzzwords.

[onion2k]

And http://fabricjs.com is a separate JS framework for doing layout on an HTML5 Canvas.