• envelope@kbin.social
    1532·
    10 months ago

    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.

      • xmunk
        50·
        10 months ago

        Fuck you forever SQLServer. Transact was perfectly googleable.

      • Gork@lemm.ee
        401·
        10 months ago

        Microsoft Azure Blob

        (Yes it’s a real product they market)

        • eerongal@ttrpg.network
          142·
          10 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.

          • xmunk
            24·
            10 months 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?

        • masinko@lemmy.world
          8·
          10 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.

        • kameecoding@lemmy.world
          8·
          10 months 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·
          8 months ago

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

    • pelya@lemmy.world
      281·
      10 months ago

      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.