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[–] [email protected] 91 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Microsoft names many things stupidly.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fuck you forever SQLServer. Transact was perfectly googleable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft Azure Blob

(Yes it's a real product they market)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Excel is a brand name, Azure Blob Storage is a descriptive title. It's Azure's blob storage service.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What is Azure Blob Storage's brand name then? I'm confused.

[–] jaybone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is why computer science is fucked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Antilock Braking System

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It falls under the Azure brand.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Visual Studio ~~Code~~

[–] masinko 9 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] kameecoding 9 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

“xbox”