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Right. But when it comes to confusing and irritating products, Microsoft is also very good.
by pjerem 4y ago
Right. But when it comes to confusing and irritating products, Microsoft is also very good.
- MandieD 4y agoNo one can match Microsoft for terrible naming and mind-bogglingly bad name changes. The epitome is the chat platform: starting out as the very generic Office Communications Server, then switching to the surprisingly clever Lync (short and unique, fantastically searchable), but then taking a turn for the literally blocked by corporate web proxies and unsearchable Skype for Business (the docs about switching to the new version were on hard-blocked skype.com), with confusing Skype for Business Online (same client, utterly different back end), and now to even less searchable Teams. I guess having two of their foundational products be extremely common English utterances just set them up for this lack of reflection.
- 0des 4y agoribbon toolbar, clippy, the list goes on