"Program Files" and "Program Files (x86)" aren't there just because Microsoft has an inability to pick snappy names.
Renaming system folders depending on the user's language also seems like a smart way to force developers to use dynamic references such as %ProgramFiles% instead of hard-coded paths (but some random programs will spuriously install things in "C:\Program Files" anyway).
At least it's like that since Windows 7. In windows XP, it actually used the localized names on disk.
Thank god they came to their senses and changed it to "Users", something every other OS has used for forever.
tech: First, click on the "Start" button...
user: No! I want to shut it down
1) Removing the "Start" label such that all the money and effort they spent coming up with that actually good idea back in the 90s and helping people think about how to use their computer not only went to waste, but is actively preventing people from feeling comfortable using their modern computers because a tiny circle with a logo is not something you are driven to click and various linux distros had been demonstrating that exact problem for decades
2) Hiding the shutdown part in a weird new menu that pops out of the side but only if you use a gesture that is impossible to discover except by accident and you will have no clue how you got there or what's going on
>To shut down Windows 8, you can use the Charms bar by moving your cursor to the top-right corner, clicking Settings, then the Power icon, and selecting Shut down
Someone who makes my entire net worth a year came up with that idea in a drug fueled bender and was promptly promoted and the world continues to be a terrible and unfair place.
.NET Core is a ground up rewrite of .NET and was released alongside the original .NET, which was renamed .NET Framework to distinguish it. Both can be equally considered to be "frameworks" and "core" to things. They then renamed .NET Core to .NET.
And there's the name .NET itself, which has never made an iota of sense, and the obsession they had with sticking .NET on the end of every product name for a while.
I don't know how they named these things, but I like to imagine they have a department dedicated to it that is filled with wild eyed lunatics who want to see the world burn, or at least mill about in confusion.
For naming, ".net" got changed to "Copilot" on everything now.
That's the marketing department. All the .NET stuff showed up when the internet became a big deal around 2000 and Microsoft wanted to give the impression that they were "with it".
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But Copilot is another Microsoft monstrosity. There's the M365 Copilot, which is different from Github Copilot which is different from the CLI Copilot which is a bit different from the VSCode Copilot. I think I might have missed a few copilots?
Prior names included Mocha and LiveScript until Netscape/Sun forced the current name.