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95 points

Microsoft names many things stupidly.

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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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39 points

Microsoft Azure Blob

(Yes it’s a real product they market)

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12 points

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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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.

Edit: the top result for blob get is accurate on Google but you’ll also quickly see this result from that site we all hate:

Need help! How do I get the blob fish, basking shark and dwarf whale?

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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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16 points

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

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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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2 points

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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