It’s like naming your company x
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envelope@kbin.social 9 months ago
Given that .net was a TLD long before the framework came out, it was a stupid thing to name it. Caused confusion and the inability to Google things right away.
jwt@programming.dev 9 months ago
intensely_human@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Or the rectangular gaming console that you sell “xbox”
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Like naming a new TLD .zip!
pelya@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It was pretty smart marketing move. Business people hear ‘dot net’ and nod wisely. Tech people hear ‘dot net’ and scrunch their faces. Either way people keep talking about Microsoft Java.
neutron@thelemmy.club 9 months ago
And this is why alcoholism is rampant. Please free me from this insanity.
jaybone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That aligns with their fucked up naming conventions anyway.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Microsoft names many things stupidly.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Fuck you forever SQLServer. Transact was perfectly googleable.
flathead@lemm.ee 9 months ago
wasn’t it originally idiotically named “SQL/Server”?
Gork@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Microsoft Azure Blob
(Yes it’s a real product they market)
eerongal@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
I mean, blob (and object storage in general) has been used as a term for a long time. It isn’t particularly new, and MS didn’t invent it.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
That’s sort of the problem. It’s easy to Google S3 since it’s a distinct (if obnoxiously short) term. Blob is already an overloaded term.
An example of a great name from Microsoft is Excel, it’s relatively short but meaningless so if you Google “Excel Sum” you’ll get wonderful results… “Blob Get” is going to get you a lot of random stuff.
arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Visual Studio
Codemasinko@lemmy.world 9 months ago
To prevent confusion, I call them “VS Code” and “Visual Studio IDE”, because if you say Visual Studio, people assume you mean Visual Studio Code.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
And renames a random product every month, following a restructuring it’s licensing
kameecoding@lemmy.world 9 months ago
At least they don’t control the most popular code hosting site along with the most popular code editing software, right? Right?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 9 months ago
“xbox”