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No 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
by MandieD 4y ago
No 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.