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One of my absolute favourite comments ever on HN was by basch in 2017-04-20:
https://smackernews.com/item/14160809 HN
It's a beautiful, heartfelt, almost entirely lowercase, description of the state of affairs of Microsoft's 'naming of things' (remember, there's only two hard things in computer science).
This year I've had to fully (re)embrace the challenges of Microsoft's (re)naming, (re)branding, and (re)invigorating of some of their old products. Oh my.
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JTbane
MS is super bad at naming things.
selimthegrim
I worked at one place where we had a girl who called herself a "Sharepoint Evangelist" and was really pissed we were hosting our knowledge base on Confluence. I tried using Sharepoint and it was piss poor terrible. I totally didn't understand her loyalty, or any software loyalty really.