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'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN (www.ign.com)

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 days ago (21 children)

Part of the problem might be that I literally have no idea what their current console is called? Whoever was in charge of naming the last threeish xbox consoles should be fired out of a cannon

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (11 children)

They had all that free marketting from people assuming the third one would be the 720 and they ditched it in favor of calling it the Xbox One, which everyone was already using for the name of the first Xbox. Still baffled by that one.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

I can't think of a single company worse at naming products and services than Microsoft. They have an abysmal track record. Some examples off the top of my head, all of which make web searches near-impossible:

They renamed Office 365 to just "365" (and then "365 Copilot"). The mind boggles.
They named their light extensible code editor "Visual Studio Code", despite the fact that they had a long-established IDE (for code) called "Visual Studio".
They called their application framework "the .NET framework".
They called the replacement framework ".NET Core", and after a few major versions, changed to calling it ".NET", but it's totally distinct from the .NET framework.
They called their ninth major desktop operating system "Windows 7", then followed up with "Windows 8" and... "Windows 10".
Their native web app replacement for Outlook is called "New Outlook".
They recently renamed their Remote Desktop app "Windows App". I have no words.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

One would almost think they are having a laugh, but no it's for real (I don't think are intentionally trying to come up with such comically stupid naming policies).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if they do these bad names for the free publicity of people complaining about them. But then there's plenty examples where the name isn't just clunky, but rather actively confusing for potential users...

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