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.
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.
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:
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You forgot about Teams (New)
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.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean Teams or the other incompatible Teams, with the colors inverted on the icon?
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).
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…
Kyre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
There’s also Microsoft PowerBi. Just a wonderfully descriptive name.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Remember when they named their voice assistant after a video game character?