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154 points

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.

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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.

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And this is why alcoholism is rampant. Please free me from this insanity.

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95 points

Microsoft names many things stupidly.

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25 points

Visual Studio Code

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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.

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39 points

Microsoft Azure Blob

(Yes it’s a real product they market)

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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.

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50 points

Fuck you forever SQLServer. Transact was perfectly googleable.

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4 points

wasn’t it originally idiotically named “SQL/Server”?

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16 points

And renames a random product every month, following a restructuring it’s licensing

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8 points

At least they don’t control the most popular code hosting site along with the most popular code editing software, right? Right?

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Yeah Microsoft Entra is the latest one. Azure AD had such huge brand recognition and they just dropped it lol

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1 point

“xbox”

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39 points

Like naming a new TLD .zip!

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62 points

It’s like naming your company x

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Or the rectangular gaming console that you sell “xbox”

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19 points

That aligns with their fucked up naming conventions anyway.

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