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Re:Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 by sixbrx on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @04:53PM (#5708056)
If that's the reason (though I have my doubts), in that case it may have been a very poorly chosen name.
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 by dangrossman on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @05:08PM (#5708163)
Microsoft has a long history of very poorly chosen names. There are at least 3 other Microsoft Stores -- their chain of retail stores (ala Apple Store), the online version of those stores, their multiple "Microsoft Stores" on the corporate campus that sell Microsoft hardware/software/books/swag to both visitors and employees predating the retail locations, and their employee-only online store.
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 by kravlin on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @05:34PM (#5708402)
I remember working with IIS at one point, and an object had a name like "site" then inside of the configuration files you had other "sites" that configured your site.

Finding errors for one was incredibly difficult because the other one kept popping up.

Re:Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 by qu4z-2 on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @10:22PM (#5716534)
Sql Server and MVC also come to mind as less-than-ideal names.
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 by pessimizer on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @08:03PM (#5709262)
.net, anyone?