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I reckon the same dipshits responsible for Microsoft’s product naming in the early 2000s all moved on to Google to wreak the same havoc there.

jkkola 3mo ago
Looking at the recent decades-old-brand renaming bonanza with MS Office I'm pretty sure they're still in Redmond.
- tanseydavid 3mo ago
  Got burned by this when I was wanting to uninstall MS Office from my laptop recently. Filtering with string "office" turned up nothing in the list of installed programs but it was clear that "MS Office Click-to-Run SxS" was regularly grinding away chewing lots of CPU. So I was not crazy -- Office was installed. The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365. Brilliant value add on that one </sarc>
  - kalleboo 3mo ago
    > The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365 It's now been renamed "Microsoft 365 Copilot". Not joking.
tapoxi 3mo ago
Their current product naming is still terrible.They went from the Xbox, to the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. The latest console is the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X
- eterm 3mo ago
  I thought that was satire but I've googled it and you're not even joking.
  - neves 3mo ago
    Now search for Microsoft corporation family if products called Copilot
  - TitaRusell 3mo ago
    And I bet marketeers got paid a lot of money to come up with those.
    - ramses0 3mo ago
      Mitch Hedberg... "I want to get a job at the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute: Refrigerator, Toaster, Blender.. you just say say what it does, then you add '-er' What's this thing do? It keeps shit fresh. Well that's a fresher. I'm goin on break." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwpS5M7hgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwpS5M7hgA
- ramses0 3mo ago
  ...and the Ally ISN'T EVEN AN XBOX!!!! """AI Overview: No, the Asus ROG Ally is not actually an Xbox. It is a handheld Windows computer made by Asus, even though it features Xbox branding and uses an Xbox-style controller layout"""
  - nevster 3mo ago
    "This post is an XBOX"
  - maccard 3mo ago
    Obviously it’s an ally, just like the Xbox series x is a series. How much clearer could they be? (Joking). Let’s be honest, Nintendo are just as bad - new 2DS would like a word.
- pmarreck 3mo ago
  Gaming’s home deserves to be on Linux. I know GabeN agrees with me, and he’s worked hard to make it happen.
  - weakened_malloc 3mo ago
    It basically already is if you're not playing live service. Unfortunately I can't see MS ever making their catalogue of games workable with Proton, Riot won't as well since they won't budge on kernel level anti-cheat, and for God knows what reason Epic won't do so either (even though they're always pushing for open platforms???)
    - pmarreck 3mo ago
      there’s a simple answer to all of these things that will cause the market to take care of it: simply increase the Linux gaming market size and given how shitty Microsoft is treating everything lately, it won’t even be hard
iamacyborg 3mo ago
No, no, they’ve all moved over to Salesforce.

jkkola 3mo ago

Looking at the recent decades-old-brand renaming bonanza with MS Office I'm pretty sure they're still in Redmond.

tanseydavid 3mo ago
Got burned by this when I was wanting to uninstall MS Office from my laptop recently. Filtering with string "office" turned up nothing in the list of installed programs but it was clear that "MS Office Click-to-Run SxS" was regularly grinding away chewing lots of CPU. So I was not crazy -- Office was installed. The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365. Brilliant value add on that one </sarc>
- kalleboo 3mo ago
  > The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365 It's now been renamed "Microsoft 365 Copilot". Not joking.

tapoxi 3mo ago

Their current product naming is still terrible.They went from the Xbox, to the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. The latest console is the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X

eterm 3mo ago
I thought that was satire but I've googled it and you're not even joking.
- neves 3mo ago
  Now search for Microsoft corporation family if products called Copilot
- TitaRusell 3mo ago
  And I bet marketeers got paid a lot of money to come up with those.
  - ramses0 3mo ago
    Mitch Hedberg... "I want to get a job at the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute: Refrigerator, Toaster, Blender.. you just say say what it does, then you add '-er' What's this thing do? It keeps shit fresh. Well that's a fresher. I'm goin on break." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwpS5M7hgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwpS5M7hgA
ramses0 3mo ago
...and the Ally ISN'T EVEN AN XBOX!!!! """AI Overview: No, the Asus ROG Ally is not actually an Xbox. It is a handheld Windows computer made by Asus, even though it features Xbox branding and uses an Xbox-style controller layout"""
- nevster 3mo ago
  "This post is an XBOX"
- maccard 3mo ago
  Obviously it’s an ally, just like the Xbox series x is a series. How much clearer could they be? (Joking). Let’s be honest, Nintendo are just as bad - new 2DS would like a word.
pmarreck 3mo ago
Gaming’s home deserves to be on Linux. I know GabeN agrees with me, and he’s worked hard to make it happen.
- weakened_malloc 3mo ago
  It basically already is if you're not playing live service. Unfortunately I can't see MS ever making their catalogue of games workable with Proton, Riot won't as well since they won't budge on kernel level anti-cheat, and for God knows what reason Epic won't do so either (even though they're always pushing for open platforms???)
  - pmarreck 3mo ago
    there’s a simple answer to all of these things that will cause the market to take care of it: simply increase the Linux gaming market size and given how shitty Microsoft is treating everything lately, it won’t even be hard

iamacyborg 3mo ago

No, no, they’ve all moved over to Salesforce.