Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN

kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They had all that free marketting from people assuming the third one would be the 720 and they ditched it in favor of calling it the Xbox One, which everyone was already using for the name of the first Xbox. Still baffled by that one.

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  • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t think of a single company worse at naming products and services than Microsoft. They have an abysmal track record. Some examples off the top of my head, all of which make web searches near-impossible:

    • They renamed Office 365 to just “365” (and then “365 Copilot”). The mind boggles.
    • They named their light extensible code editor “Visual Studio Code”, despite the fact that they had a long-established IDE (for code) called “Visual Studio”.
    • They called their application framework “the .NET framework”.
    • They called the replacement framework “.NET Core”, and after a few major versions, changed to calling it “.NET”, but it’s totally distinct from the .NET framework.
    • They called their ninth major desktop operating system “Windows 7”, then followed up with “Windows 8” and… “Windows 10”.
    • Their web-powered replacement for Outlook is called “New Outlook”.
    • They recently renamed their Remote Desktop app “Windows App”. I have no words.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You forgot about Teams (New)

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have Teams (New) as well as New Team’s

        Teams (New) is the next version of teams except I literally don’t know what they’ve done because I can’t see any difference.

        New Teams appears to be a totally different project except again it looks identical but the calendar is different, they’ve actually managed to make the calendar worse, which is impressive since it was pretty goddamn unusable to start with.

        I don’t understand why they have two development strands going on simultaneously.

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      • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You mean Teams or the other incompatible Teams, with the colors inverted on the icon?

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    • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One would almost think they are having a laugh, but no it’s for real (I don’t think are intentionally trying to coming which such comically stupid naming policies).

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      • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, sometimes I wonder if they do these bad names for the free publicity of people complaining about them. But then there’s plenty examples where the name isn’t just clunky, but rather actively confusing for potential users…

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    • Kyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s also Microsoft PowerBi. Just a wonderfully descriptive name.

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    • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Remember when they named their voice assistant after a video game character?

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• blattrules@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, totally agree on this. If you put the last two names in front of me and asked which was newer, I’d have no idea. The new one has multiple versions too so it makes it more confusing.

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• krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, after the 360 they had XXXbox sitting right there and they acted like they were too good for it. Prudes.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s my sexbox and her name is Sony!

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Microsoft suck at naming things in general. It’s a problem across every single branch of the business, people keep calling Office 365 0365 because Microsoft insists on calling it O365 and people think that’s a zero. Also the name makes no sense anyway, why not call it Microsoft Office Online?

  Then we have Microsoft Azure, except they renamed that to Entra despite the fact that both names are stupid. Then of course there is the entirety of the Windows OS lineup.

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  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Entry isn’t Azure. Entra ID is what they renamed Azure Active Directory to. But not always; there’s also Azure Active Directory B2C (yes, that’s the fully expanded name). And various other Azure-branded things that may or may not belong together.

    Microsoft are spectacularly bad at naming things.

    It’s a miracle they haven’t renamed Windows 11 to “360 365” or “Live 6.5” or “Active-DOS Series X” or something.

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• yarr@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think It’s called Xbox Series 365 Office Copilot Pro+ for .NET

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• Venicon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t know what you mean. Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X all make perfect sense and leave zero grounds for confusion at all

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  • Arello@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol, that has some pre-Switch Nintendo naming energy

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• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The current one is the Xbox Seriez Z4 pro classic

  Cmon keep up

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