Given that .net was a TLD long before the framework came out, it was a stupid thing to name it. Caused confusion and the inability to Google things right away.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Microsoft names many things stupidly.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft Azure Blob

(Yes it's a real product they market)

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[–] arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Visual Studio ~~Code~~

[–] masinko@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

At least they don't control the most popular code hosting site along with the most popular code editing software, right? Right?

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah Microsoft Entra is the latest one. Azure AD had such huge brand recognition and they just dropped it lol

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck you forever SQLServer. Transact was perfectly googleable.

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wasn't it originally idiotically named "SQL/Server"?

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

gnu/linux /j

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

“xbox”

[–] jwt@programming.dev 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like naming your company x

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Or the rectangular gaming console that you sell “xbox”

[–] NaibofTabr 36 points 1 year ago

Like naming a new TLD .zip!

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was pretty smart marketing move. Business people hear 'dot net' and nod wisely. Tech people hear 'dot net' and scrunch their faces. Either way people keep talking about Microsoft Java.

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

And this is why alcoholism is rampant. Please free me from this insanity.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

That aligns with their fucked up naming conventions anyway.