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Meanwhile Microsoft is just like...let's called it "Blob"

"Xbox One X Series X Service Pack 1 September Refresh CTP Preview 3 Update 5a*. I mean, imma buy it, but lord MSFT sucks at naming stuff" [0]

"I once worked on the unambiguously named "Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Tools For Microsoft Office .NET System 2005". Yes, it had "Microsoft" and ".NET" in the name twice. When the name was announced we all laughed as we assumed it was a joke. It was not." [1]

[0] https://nitter.net/shanselman/status/1205355248715358215

[1] https://nitter.net/ericlippert/status/1205372172534874112

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Tools For Microsoft Office .NET System 2005 was pretty great at the time, being able to automate Excel in C# and not have to use VBA was very nice.

The whole thing is like german agglutinative nouns. Bits of product keep piling up, but each one has the most generic possible name. But the least forgivable one has to be the XBox One X. I hadn't even realised there was an XBox One X Series X.

Me neither. I thought it was Xbox Series X, not to be confused with the Xbox Series S.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/consoles/xbox-series-x

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/consoles/xbox-series-s

Wow I thought AWS Systems Manager Session Manager was bad.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

What about Visual Studio Code not having anything to with Visual Studio.

I'll never not link this video when it comes to Microsoft naming and branding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

That was fun and a good throwback.

But it was interesting to see in the comments that MS actually claimed credit for it:

"It was an internal-only video clip commissioned by our packaging [team] to humorously highlight the challenges we have faced RE: packaging and to educate marketers here about the pitfalls of packaging/branding"

I didn't know that, but it's cool, and I think shows that Microsoft had a healthy culture.

If you can laugh at yourself, you can learn and grow. Companies aren't a monolithic hive-mind (even Microsoft!)

I still love that video.

It's even worse than that because Azure has block blobs, page blobs, and append blobs.

Microsoft Blob. That has a certain ring to it.

Blob blob blob!

Sorry, what's that Dory?

Microsoft Loblaw law blog

Are you sure it's not Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Solution for Enterprise 2020?

You’re missing a 365 in there.

Live .net

Did you mean the NFS one or the S3 one?

They'd already used Bob.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

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