Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:55PM (#14093571)

MS is horrible at naming things, WOW64 anyone?

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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by douche on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:40PM (#14093847)

Or the needless confusion when everything needed to have .NET tacked onto the name.

Or after they bought Skype, and rebranded the unrelated Lync as Skype for Business. Not to mention that Lync is a homophone of LINQ, which was coming out around when Office Communication Server became Lync...

Or lately, when you had Visual Studio 2015, and what is now Visual Studio 2017 being called Visual Studio '15 while it was pre-release.

Naming things is hard.

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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by cmarschner on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:10PM (#14094190)

I guess it is Visual Studio 15 (as in version 15), and that still holds.

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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by ygra on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:02AM (#14095172)

Yep, while in pre-release they always just use the version number and that only happened to be similar to the actual product name in VS 2010, I think.

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