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by Joker_vD 1722 days ago
"Xbox One X Series X Service Pack 1 September Refresh CTP Preview 3 Update 5a*. I mean, imma buy it, but lord MSFT sucks at naming stuff" [0]

"I once worked on the unambiguously named "Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Tools For Microsoft Office .NET System 2005". Yes, it had "Microsoft" and ".NET" in the name twice. When the name was announced we all laughed as we assumed it was a joke. It was not." [1]

[0] https://nitter.net/shanselman/status/1205355248715358215

[1] https://nitter.net/ericlippert/status/1205372172534874112

4 comments

The whole thing is like german agglutinative nouns. Bits of product keep piling up, but each one has the most generic possible name. But the least forgivable one has to be the XBox One X. I hadn't even realised there was an XBox One X Series X.
Me neither. I thought it was Xbox Series X, not to be confused with the Xbox Series S.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/consoles/xbox-series-x

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/consoles/xbox-series-s

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Tools For Microsoft Office .NET System 2005 was pretty great at the time, being able to automate Excel in C# and not have to use VBA was very nice.
Wow I thought AWS Systems Manager Session Manager was bad.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

What about Visual Studio Code not having anything to with Visual Studio.