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> Even Microsoft had the decency to tack on "for business" when they were butchering Skype's branding! 1 Xbox (2001) 2 Xbox 360 (2005) 2.1 Xbox
by Rackedup 4y ago
> Even Microsoft had the decency to tack on "for business" when they were butchering Skype's branding!
1 Xbox (2001)
2 Xbox 360 (2005)
2.1 Xbox 360 S (2010)
2.2 Xbox 360 E (2013)
3 Xbox One (2013)
3.1 Xbox One S (2016)
3.2 Xbox One X (2017)
4 Xbox Series X | S (2020)
On a tangent, MS really screwed up Skype when they bought it (by removing p2p supernodes).
- Dylan16807 4y agoThose names are far from good, but they're still different names for each generation. And you can skip the letter at the end for this comparison.
- fomine3 4y ago"Series" as a generation identifier (like 4 or 5 on PlayStation) is weird for me (but not English native). Is it natural for natives?
- Dylan16807 4y agoNo.
- ploxiln 4y agoNope. It sounds like it refers to the "franchise" "lineage" of xboxes. It's really like that old Abbott and Costello skit "Who's on first" (especially the "Xbox One" and the "X" suffix. Which Xbox? the X one.)
- ClassyJacket 4y agoNope, it's a very strange and awkward sounding name.
- sireat 4y agoOld pre MS Skype was pretty amazing for its day. In mid 2000s Skype was dominant. Pretty much all chat/talk flowed through Skype with corresponding interest in monitoring from pretty much any government. There is a plausible conspiracy theory that part of why Microsoft bought Skype was to have everything centralized on US servers. Sort of devil's bargain. I remember reading Microsoft's defense of centralization here on HN some years ago and it was extremely unconvincing.
- Rackedup 4y ago> There is a plausible conspiracy theory that part of why Microsoft bought Skype was to have everything centralized on US servers. Sort of devil's bargain. I heard back in those days that they got a grant from the government for purchasing Skype... that sure doesn't help deny conspiracy theories.