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 60 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Microsoft names many things stupidly.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft Azure Blob

(Yes it's a real product they market)

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 11 months ago

Visual Studio ~~Code~~

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

“xbox”

[–] jwt@programming.dev 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's like naming your company x

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Or the rectangular gaming console that you sell “xbox”

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 23 points 11 months ago

Like naming a new TLD .zip!