FULL OUTER JOIN vs. FULL JOIN

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Just playing around with queries and examples to get a better understanding of joins. I'm noticing that in SQL Server 2008, the following two queries give the same results:

SELECT * FROM TableA
FULL OUTER JOIN TableB
ON TableA.name = TableB.name

SELECT * FROM TableA
FULL JOIN TableB
ON TableA.name = TableB.name

Are these performing exactly the same action to produce the same results, or would I run into different results in a more complicated example? Is this just interchangeable terminology?

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