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

• egrets@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You forgot about Teams (New)

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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