They'll sound better after we hear Microsoft's names.
Microsoft Azure™ Inference for Cloud Apps© 365 Pro® Live Series X™®
> Azure Active Directory is now Microsoft Entra ID
ok, geez, thanks
Entra ID sounds like a type of ID.
I’m not sure how something could legitimately have each of these names. I assume the functionality changed pretty dramatically over the lifespan of the product?
I was pretty confused the first time I encountered it, though. Could tell from context that it had something to do with accounts, but thought maybe it could be for syncing a user’s home directory or something!
It actually isn’t a terrible name, in isolation, since a directory (like, the non-digital version) was for keeping identities. But “directory” in tech has a pretty strong association with file systems.
It technically builts upon (amongst other systems) LDAP, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and X.500
I guess you could think of it more like a telephone directory - which again is also where the file system metaphor has its roots I guess. So the two are not so different in the end.
A month or so ago my laptop was requiring a BitLocker recovery code before it would boot. I spent ages looking for Azure AD, before eventually discovering it was renamed to Entra. They should have had a transition period where it would have “ (formerly called Azure Active Directory)” on its name.