It’s like naming your company x
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envelope@kbin.social 1 year 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 1 year ago
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Or the rectangular gaming console that you sell “xbox”
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Like naming a new TLD .zip!
pelya@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
And this is why alcoholism is rampant. Please free me from this insanity.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That aligns with their fucked up naming conventions anyway.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Microsoft names many things stupidly.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Fuck you forever SQLServer. Transact was perfectly googleable.
flathead@lemm.ee 1 year ago
wasn’t it originally idiotically named “SQL/Server”?
Gork@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Microsoft Azure Blob
(Yes it’s a real product they market)
eerongal@ttrpg.network 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Visual Studio
Codemasinko@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
And renames a random product every month, following a restructuring it’s licensing
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
“xbox”