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by ga_to 1187 days ago
Microsoft has done this before with mauikit and mauilinux: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/35

Unlikely that they even consider checking whether they are stomping across existing names.

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> Unlikely that they even consider checking whether they are stomping across existing names.

Or it's on purpose as existing terms already have good amount of search traffic for those terms, and Microsoft know Google/Bing will rank Microsoft's own pages higher than what's already out there.

They even do that with their own products…