[Conan_Kudo]

You could use the possessive form here: "Windows' Subsystem for Linux", but that's not a thing product managers like to use in naming...

[kaidon]

It probably had an internal name like "winix" or "lindows" - but PM took the reins and came up with a much worse name, as is tradition.

[Joker_vD]

Oh yes. My favourite example is [0] (and the parent twit).

[0] https://twitter.com/ericlippert/status/1205372172534874112