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I wondered when the name change was coming because this is Google: products be endlessly repackaged and renamed, some only to be killed later.

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I’ve noticed a lot of big corporations doing this and I think the reasoning behind it is it’s really easy to say you shipped a product on your résumé. If all you did was change the name of it. It actually takes a lot of work and time to ship a new innovative product.

openAI just renamed codex to ChatGPT app … I think it is just par for the game.

I reckon the same dipshits responsible for Microsoft’s product naming in the early 2000s all moved on to Google to wreak the same havoc there.

Looking at the recent decades-old-brand renaming bonanza with MS Office I'm pretty sure they're still in Redmond.

Got burned by this when I was wanting to uninstall MS Office from my laptop recently.

Filtering with string "office" turned up nothing in the list of installed programs but it was clear that "MS Office Click-to-Run SxS" was regularly grinding away chewing lots of CPU. So I was not crazy -- Office was installed.

The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365. Brilliant value add on that one </sarc>

> The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365

It's now been renamed "Microsoft 365 Copilot". Not joking.

Their current product naming is still terrible.They went from the Xbox, to the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X.

The latest console is the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X

I thought that was satire but I've googled it and you're not even joking.

Now search for Microsoft corporation family if products called Copilot

And I bet marketeers got paid a lot of money to come up with those.

Mitch Hedberg... "I want to get a job at the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute: Refrigerator, Toaster, Blender.. you just say say what it does, then you add '-er' What's this thing do? It keeps shit fresh. Well that's a fresher. I'm goin on break."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwpS5M7hgA

...and the Ally ISN'T EVEN AN XBOX!!!!

"""AI Overview: No, the Asus ROG Ally is not actually an Xbox. It is a handheld Windows computer made by Asus, even though it features Xbox branding and uses an Xbox-style controller layout"""

"This post is an XBOX"

Obviously it’s an ally, just like the Xbox series x is a series. How much clearer could they be? (Joking).

Let’s be honest, Nintendo are just as bad - new 2DS would like a word.

Gaming’s home deserves to be on Linux.

I know GabeN agrees with me, and he’s worked hard to make it happen.

It basically already is if you're not playing live service. Unfortunately I can't see MS ever making their catalogue of games workable with Proton, Riot won't as well since they won't budge on kernel level anti-cheat, and for God knows what reason Epic won't do so either (even though they're always pushing for open platforms???)

there’s a simple answer to all of these things that will cause the market to take care of it: simply increase the Linux gaming market size

and given how shitty Microsoft is treating everything lately, it won’t even be hard

No, no, they’ve all moved over to Salesforce.

  > products be endlessly repackaged

I don't speak English at home either, so I hope this helps. It's "products are", not "products be".

i’m thinking it’s an intentional turn of phrase

so for example in native English, if someone upset some people, you might say, just to be creatively different:

“oh boy. people be big mad”

it is an idiom, not necessarily officially part of the language. just saying things in a silly way to be different

“now you’ve done it… People be cryin’!”

I think it might also be an echo of pidgin English/Creole/caribbean English? Would be an interesting language dive. Ask an AI!

It's ebonics, a slang or dialect version of using "are."

And it's more like "are being" here (present imperfect)

Linguistically it's particularly interesting since it marks the habitual aspect, and standard English has no grammatical equivalent.[0]

[0]: https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/invariant-be#who-says-this

Ebonics, from the root ebony, meaning black-speak? I can't believe that's still acceptable.

sometimes it do be like that

a) This was probably just a typo for "being".

b) Hey but at least you can learn something today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be

Thank you.

Isn't it just slang? Foobar be like ...

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