Microsoft at Work

Re:Microsoft at Work by nailer on Saturday April 27, 2024 @08:06PM (#40184739)

> This kind of terrible product naming was rampant in the mid-'90s, perhaps more from Microsoft than usual.

The xbox team thoroughly disagrees with this statement.

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Re:Microsoft at Work by ethbr1 on Saturday April 27, 2024 @09:16PM (#40185130)

At least there's no XBox Live!(tm) yet...

Oh.

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Re:Microsoft at Work by RajT88 on Saturday April 27, 2024 @09:55PM (#40185352)

Lest anyone forget, let's revisit the naming convention of Xboxen. To make my point, I will randomize the order instead of going chronologically:

Xbox One

Xbox

Xbox Series X/S

Xbox One X/S

Xbox 360

They all had "Xbox Live!" more usually written Xbox LIVE

At work I like to joke that any new product coming out from Microsoft should be renamed "Azure DevOps", since their goal appears to be confusion.

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Re:Microsoft at Work by input_sh on Sunday April 28, 2024 @01:04AM (#40186143)

Are you referring to Azure DevOps Server, formerly known as Team Foundation Server / Visual Studio Team System? Or are you referring to Azure DevOps Services, formerly known as Visual Studio Online / Visual Studio Team Services? Fortunately they both support both Git and Microsoft's own Team Foundation Version Control (which luckily never changed its name). Please let me know the answer via Microsoft Teams, or if you prefer, via Microsoft Teams Free (Classic).

With you 100%, nobody's worse at naming things than Microsoft. I'd say the only real contender for its throne is Google with its Messages/Allo/Duo/Hangouts Chat/Hangouts Meet/Google Chat.

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Re:Microsoft at Work by WWLink on Sunday April 28, 2024 @04:18AM (#40186962)

AHHH I fucking hate microsoft :D

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Re:Microsoft at Work by ornornor on Sunday April 28, 2024 @05:28AM (#40187251)

You forgot Azure DevOps, their attempt at a JIRA/project management ersatz.

Also Skype, that is sometimes called Lynx, or Skype for Business.

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Re:Microsoft at Work by twodave on Sunday April 28, 2024 @09:31AM (#40188458)

Lync* actually, so imagine talking about new things coming to the System.Linq namespace and the migration to Lync from MSN Messenger at a .NET shop in the late 2000s, confusing the heck out of everyone.

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Re:Microsoft at Work by ethbr1 on Sunday April 28, 2024 @12:04PM (#40189566)

Afaicr, Skype for Business (aka Lync) is a completely different codebase / program than Skype.

They rebranded it when they bought Skype because everyone hated Lync so much.

Which... to be fair, Lync is the only application I've known that's dumb enough to repeat failed login attempts with the same incorrect credential until the account is locked.

Found out when I'd rotate my AD password and a box I was remoted into would promptly lock my account by trying to use the old cached auth.

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Re:Microsoft at Work by graynk on Sunday April 28, 2024 @06:48AM (#40187594)

Don’t forget to add to that list such beautiful services as Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass For PC (later renamed to PC Game Pass, for which you still have to have an Xbox app installed)

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